Hammond v. State

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING.

HAWKINS, Presiding Judge.

In his motion for rehearing appellant insists that when the County Attorney said to the jury in his argument “The defendant is a bootlegger and a wise one, the evidence showed that the defendant is a bootlegger and that is what we are trying him for,” it was an improper and prejudicial argument for which the judgment should be reversed notwithstanding the trial court instructed the jury to disregard said argument. Appellant urges that by the complained of statement the County Attorney gave the jury unsworn information that appellant was adroit…