Johnson v. State

On separate trial under an indictment charging Paul Johnson and Lester Goodson with the murder of John Ridgdill Jr., by shooting him with a pistol, Paul Johnson was convicted and recommended to mercy. A motion for a new trial having been overruled, the movant excepted.

The fourth ground of the motion for a new trial, which complains of a refusal to declare a mistrial, is without merit. It was improper for the attorney for the codefendant not on trial to make the remark of which complaint is made, but such remark was not sufficient to require the grant of a mistrial, especially in view of the…