Watkins v. State

The plaintiff in error was convicted of murder of one Tom Leek (in the second degree), and has appealed to this court and assigned errors.

A reversal of the judgment must result because of the failure of the trial judge to hold the argument of the District Attorney-General 'within- legitimate bounds. In that argument it was said, by way of prefatory remarks:

“I come before you with but one humble purpose in mind, and that is, to the best of the ability that I have in performing that office that the law requires of me, by a cool, deliberate, and unimpassioned debate and rehearsal of the facts to…