Lober v. State

Broyles, O. J.

The defendant was convicted of the offense of selling whisky; and his motion for new trial was overruled. One ground of the motion was based on the refusal of the judge to declare a mistrial because of the alleged improper and prejudicial Statement made by the solicitor-general in his concluding' argument to the jury, to wit: “I am sure that the people of this county approve what Judge Mitchell [the judge who presided in the case] is doing in these liquor cases. Judge Mitchell knows something about this case that we do not know. He is trying to get at the bottom of this…