State v. Pierson

LOCKWOOD, Justice.

This is an appeal from defendant’s conviction for the crime of attempted robbery, and sentence of a term not less than fifteen nor more than twenty years in the state penitentiary. Defendant contends that certain comments made by the prosecu tor during his closing argument amounted to a comment on defendant’s failure to take the stand, and thus constituted reversible error.

The particular statements objected to were: (1) “Now the defendant hasn’t said, I didn’t do it,” and (2) “The only man in the world besides the defendant that can testify as to whether he was there or not…