Dunfee v. State

Conley Byrd, Justice.

Appellants, Franklin Dunfee, his wife, Mary Louise, his sister, Geneva Howe, and her husband, Pat Howe, appeal from a conviction of assault with intent to kill. For reversal they rely upon certain comments of the court during the cross-examination of Klela Dunn, one of the prosecuting witnesses ; remarks, of the prosecuting attorney in his opening statement to the jury relative to the characters of appellants; and a remark of the prosecuting attorney in his closing-argument.

The facts show that on December 26, 1965, the four appellants and a young man named Barnes Avere…