State v. Meshek

1. OKTHINAü practice: ment to jury, — I. In liis opening statement to the jury, the district attorney made a full statement of what he expected to prove, and, among other things, he said that r ’ ° ° 7 , 0n the evening preceding the homicide the defendant had a difficulty with one Cresek, and that he made an assault upon the latter. When the parties were about to separate, Cresek told the defendant, in substance, that he “uPaild take the law to him.” On the same evening or night, Cresek filed an information against the defendant before a justice of the peace, who thereupon issued a warrant…