Pruitt v. State

Orville Pruitt, hereinafter called appellant, was informed against by the county attorney of Maricopa county for the crime of robbery. He was duly convicted by a jury and sentenced to a term of imprisonment in the state prison, and from the verdict and judgment entered he has appealed.

There are five assignments of error, but we need consider only the first two. They are, in substance, an attack upon the action of the trial court in giving the following instruction:

“Under the evidence in this case, however, gentlemen, and under the admission of counsel in their address to you, the court…