Comings v. State

Two errors appear on the record of the trial of this case. The first was the erroneous admission of evidence that appellant entered a plea of guilty in his preliminary or committal trial, when the facts show that the said plea or confession was not voluntary in that measure required by law; and, second, in the argument by the district attorney wherein he testified in the guise of argument to the effect that appellant’s confederates had confessed to1 appellant’s connection with the crime, when there was otherwise no such testimony before the jury. Although the first error is palpable, and the…