Watkins v. State

BENHAM, Justice.

Appellant Donald Maurice Watkins was convicted of the malice murder of Tavares Farley and sentenced to life imprisonment.1 In his sole enumeration of error, he contends the trial court committed reversible error when it permitted the assistant district attorney to deliver a portion of his closing argument while seated in the witness chair, where the assistant district attorney purportedly asked the jury to feel the emotions of the witnesses they had heard.

1. At trial, the State presented the following evidence: the forensic pathologist who performed the autopsy on the victim…