Bonier v. State

I respectfully dissent.

The entire argument of the prosecutor, although at times dealing solely with the evidence and within the record, was obviously conceived and delivered for the sole purpose of inflaming the minds of the jury and creating such an atmosphere of sympathy for the deceased and prejudice against Appellant that it totally precluded even the possibility of a fair trial.

The State responds to Appellant’s third and fourth points of error by labeling this argument merely “an imaginative form of argument to aid and assist the jury in properly analyzing the evidence before it.” The…