Green v. State

Lee Green was indicted for murder and convicted of voluntary manslaughter. To the overruling of his motion for new trial he excepted.

1. The first special ground complains that the court should have declared a mistrial on the defendant’s motion: first, on the ground that the judge allowed the solicitor general to make a supplemental statement to the jury of what he expected to prove after he had made his opening statement and the defendant’s counsel had made.his statement as to what he expected to prove; second, because of certain alleged improper and prejudicial statements made by the…