State v. . Phifer

Stacy, C. J.,

after stating the. case: It is conceded by the Attorney-General that counsel for the private prosecution went outside the record and overstepped the bounds in appealing to the jury to convict the defendant because others had been killed by drunken drivers on this same highway and no one had been punished for it: S. v. Evans, 183 N. C., 758, 111 S. E., 345.

In Washington v. State, 87 Ga., 133, 13 S. E., 131, the Supreme Court of Georgia held- that, on the trial of an indictment for arson, it was error to allow the solicitor-general, over objection of defendant’s counsel, to state,…