Clayton v. State

OPINION

DALLY, Commissioner.

The conviction is for robbery; the punishment, sixty years’ imprisonment.

The disposition of this case does not require a summation of the facts.

One of the appellant’s complaints is that he was deprived of a fair trial by the action of the prosecutor when he advised the jury in his argument after the guilt-innocence phase of the trial of his personal belief that the appellant was guilty. During the closing argument the prosecutor argued:

“Now, they have attacked the police officers and there’s an old saying here in the courthouse when you can’t defend your defendant,…