Rodgers v. State

OPINION

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is robbery; the punishment, ninety-nine (99) years.

Only two grounds of error are presented.

By his first, if properly before us, appellant complains of argument of the prosecutor wherein he said that since the three identifying witnesses and the appellant were all “persons of the colored race” that such witnesses could identify the appellant more easily than could a witness of “the white or some other racial background,” and further that these witnesses saw “hundreds of colored people every day.” The Court sustained the objection to the last quoted language,…