Wells v. State

Odie Wells, the appellant in this case, was charged jointly with Amel Guerin with the crime of grand larceny, committed in Saline county. Amel Guerin entered a plea of guilty, hut Wells was tried. To reverse the judgment and sentence in his case he filed a motion for a new trial assigning eight different alleged errors. Upon appeal, however, he waived all of them except the seventh, which was “because of the prejudicial statements to the jury made by the prosecuting attorney during his argument.”

There were two or three statements made by the prosecuting attorney to which objections were made…