State v. Jackson

The facts in this case have been sufficiently set forth in 126 Vt. 250, 227 A.2d 280, where other questions were here for review. This appeal is confined to one issue, relating to the propriety of the state’s attorney’s argument to the jury. The claim is that it represented an expression of the personal belief of the prosecutor that the respondent was guilty.

In State v. Parker, 104 Vt. 494, 500-503, 162 A. 696, this Court condemned, in strong language, the resort to jury arguments inflammatory in content, departing from the evidence presented at the trial, or representing an injection into…