State v. Brown

Defendant appeals from a verdict of guilty and sentence of death for murder, and rests her claim for a reversal of the judgment on certain remarks made by the district attorney in the course of his address to the jury on the ground that they were highly prejudicial to her, and that, they were an appeal to race prejudice. Defendant is a colored woman, and was convicted of having killed another colored woman before a jury composed of white men. The remarks of the district attorney complained of are as follows:

“Gentlemen of the jury, it is high time to-put a stop to these murders by negro…