WHITE, JR. v. State

This is a prosecution for rape. Trial was by jury which returned a verdict of guilty.

The record in this case is replete with irregularities on the part of the prosecution. Some of these pertained to the admission of evidence regarding crimes cur rently having been committed in the neighborhood of the offense charged, but which were not involved in this action. There was a statement of dubious propriety in the State’s opening statement relating to the appellant taking the witness stand, but most offensive were statements of the prosecutor in his final argument implying that appellant had…