Brown v. State

Graves, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of felony theft, and awarded a penalty of eight years in the penitentiary.

There are but two propositions presented to us for review. It seenis that appellant acted as his own attorney in the trial hereof, and only employed counsel after his conviction. There is one bill of exceptions in the record, and that relates to the district attorney’s argument to the jury in which he is alleged to have said: “I tell you, Gentlemen of the Jury, that you are not dealing with an amateur in this case, but you are dealing with a professional, a hardened criminal, and a…