Thornton v. State

Reid, Chief Justice.

1. In the defendant’s trial for murder, the evidence for the State which consisted of testimony of eyewitnesses, disclosed that the defendant, with no apparent provocation and under no circumstances of mitigation or justification, approached the deceased while he was plowing in a field and shot him with a gun. The defendant introduced no evidence, and made no statement to the jury. While the reference by the prosecuting attorney, in his argument to the jury, to the fact that the defendant made no statement, "The defendant did not think enough of his defense to make a…