Grice v. State

Almand, Presiding Justice.

Under an indictment charging him with murder for unlawfully and with malice aforethought killing one Joe C. Tolbert by shooting him with a pistol, Elijah Grice was upon his trial found guilty by the jury and sentenced to death by electrocution. The defendant’s motion for a new trial was overruled, and he appeals from the judgment of conviction and sentence.

Defendant enumerates 15 grounds of alleged error. Held:

1. Grounds 1, 2 and 3 assert that the court erred in permitting counsel for the State in his argument to the jury to make certain remarks which the defendant…