McDaniel v. State

Marshall, Justice.

Clarence McDaniel and Terry Darnell Sims appeal from their convictions of murder and armed robbery, for which they both received consecutive life sentences. The sufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict is not drawn into issue. We affirm.

1. The first enumeration of error complains of the denial of a motion for mistrial following an alleged statement by the prosecutor in his closing argument, summarized by the appellant’s counsel at trial as follows: “ [The defendants] had returned to the party from the scene of the crime, and . . . they were sitting there on the…