State v. Blankenship

BILLINGS, Chief Judge.

Defendant Elmer Gene Blankenship was found guilty by a Wayne County jury of stealing a hog 1 and his punishment was fixed at three years imprisonment. In this appeal he assigns as error two instances of prosecutorial misconduct in argument, the court’s failure to substitute a juror, the composition of the jury panel and the use of his confession in evidence. We affirm.

We have examined the argument portion of the transcript and find no error calling for reversal. The defendant’s objection to what he considered an implication by the prosecutor that the latter knew facts…