State v. Jones

Sheran, Justice.

The appeal is from a judgment of the district court whereby defendant was convicted of the crime of rape.

In urging the jury to find defendant guilty the county attorney argued: “If the State falls down, if we don’t prosecute that type of a crime, then we might just as well let everybody out of the institutions and put all the people who are not in there in the institutions because society is not safe with a man like that. It could be my daughter, it could be your daughter, it could be anybody’s daughter, it could be my wife, it could be somebody else’s wife.” The theme was…