Bell v. State

(After stating the foregoing facts.) Error is assigned in grounds (d), (e) and (f) of the petition for certio rari on the failure of the court to declare a mistrial, rebuke the solicitor, or instruct the jury to disregard the following statement made by him to the jury: “His reputation had been good until six months ago, but was not now since he had been fooling around this lewd house with this Johnson woman.”

It appears that this remark was based on the testimony of one witness that the Johnson woman ran a house of prostitution and the testimony of another that the defendant stayed in her…