State v. Thompson

Statement.

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Monroe, J.

The defendant, having been convicted of murder and sentenced to death, has appealed to this court, and relies upon the following bills of exception, as affording grounds for the reversal of the verdict and judgment appealed from, to-wit:

“Be it remembered that on the trial of the above entitled and numbered ease, Hon. S. A. Montgomery, assistant District Attorney, in his closing argument, referred to six fatherless children, in his appeal to the jury, when there was no evidence in the case about any children of any kind, as is shown…