State v. Bowen

The defendants were tried under a bill of indictment charging larceny and receiving. The jury returned a verdict of guilty of receiving stolen goods, knowing them to have been stolen, as charged in the second count of tbe bill of indictment. From this verdict and the judgment imposed pursuant thereto, the defendants appeal and assign error.

It is stated in the record that in the course of the Solicitor’s argument to the jury, he referred to the defendants, Hilbert Bowen and James McKeel, as “these two thieves,” to which remark counsel for the defendants interrupted the Solicitor’s argument and…