Parker v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Appellant was convicted in the District Court of San Augustine County of manslaughter, and his punishment fixed at two years in the penitentiary.

In his argument to the jury the State’s attorney told them that appellant had asked for a suspended sentence, and that they should consider such fact as affecting his guilt or innocence. This was manifestly improper. No such argument can be justified. The law gives to one accused of crime the right of suspended sentence under the terms of the statute, and goes so far as to require the trial court, when the accused has no counsel, to…