Oglesby v. State

THOMAS, J.:

The sole question presented to us in this appeal is whether reversible error was committed in rulings of the court in respect to a certain utterance of the state attorney in the course of his argument to the jury.

It is reported that this official said: “ ‘law enforcement officers of this County would not have brought this Defendant into this Court on this charge if it were not for the fact that there were other matters of this kind that could be tacked on him.’ ” Objection was made and mistrial requested. The state attorney denied he made the comment “as stated.” Following the…