Taylor v. State

The controlling question in all criminal prosecutions is the guilt or innocence of the person accused. But, however guilty the defendant may appear to be from the evidence, he is nevertheless entitled to a fair and impartial trial, and before a judgment of conviction can be permitted to stand, upon appeal, it must affirmatively appear that the trial below proceeded throughout without prejudicial and substantial error.

In reviewing the case at bar this court need go no further than the conduct of the solicitor who, by his repeated efforts and insistences in argument and otherwise, injected into…