Carter v. State

Nichols, Presiding Judge.

1. Defendant, plaintiff in error here, specifically abandons his general grounds of the motion for new trial but insists upon 3 special grounds thereof. In special ground 1, defendant contends that the court erred in failing to grant his motion for mistrial following certain improper and prejudicial remarks made by State’s counsel in his concluding argument to the jury, as follows: “The defendant in this case made a statement to the jury—then his counsel asked him some questions—you perhaps wondered why I didn’t ask him any questions—it was because the law does not…