Turner v. Commonwealth

SIMS, Justice.

Louie B. Turner was convicted of striking Mrs. Myrtle Thacker with a deadly weapon with intent to kill her and his punishment was fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for 10 years. He assigns two grounds for reversal of the judgment:

1. Improper remarks in the opening statement of the case to the jury by counsel employed to assist in the prosecution;

2. improper remarks in the closing argument by the same attorney.

There is practically no contrariety in the evidence. Appellant is a 19 year old country boy who lived with his mother and step-father across the road from Mrs.…