Parnell v. State

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction under an indictment charging appellant with the crime of selling intoxicating liquor. There has been no brief filed on behalf of appellant, but the Attorney General confesses error on two grounds, and, if we sustain the confession of error, it is only necessary to discuss those two assignments.

One of these assignments -relates to a part of the opening statement of the prosecuting attorney, which is as follows:

“I feel lite you ought to know, gentlemen, that, at the time this defendant was tried before, a number of cases of burglary and grand…