Johnson v. State

I cannot take part in the majority disposition of this appellant’s grounds of error five through twelve in which it is concluded that “a reading of the transcription of the court reporter’s notes does not disclose a willful and calculated effort on the part of the prosecution to deny appellant a fair and impartial trial.” The majority bases its disposition upon a selective reading of crucial facts and the astonishing legal conclusion that “only two of [the alleged improper arguments], the misstatements of law concerning self-defense and probation, were in fact erroneous.” And all this,…