Clemons v. State

The plaintiff in error, George Clemons, is under sentence for robbery. His counsel insist upon a reversal and new trial for several reasons:

First. — After the State’s evidence was closed, and two witnesses — Virgie Brown and Lou Brown —had been examined in behalf of the defendant, bis counsel offered to put him on the stand as a witness for himself, “stating that he had intended introducing defendant as a witness, but. by oversight had failed; that it, for the time, escaped his mind, and he never thought of it till Lou Brown was testifying; and that defendant would not testify on any subject…