Street v. State

GOODWYN, Justice.

We granted certiorari to review the decision of the Court of Appeals in Street v. State, 96 So.2d 680. The writ was granted to review that portion of the Court of Appeals’ opinion holding that the remarks of the solicitor in his argument to the jury were not comments upon defendant’s failure to testify, in violation of § 305, Tit. 15, Code 1940, as amended by Act No. 124, appvd. June 23, 1949, Acts 1949, p. 150. We quote the following from the opinion of the Court of Appeals, viz.:

“The defendant did not testify in the case. During the course of his argument to the jury the…