Cliett v. State

Herbert Cliett was convicted on the 24th of May, 1932, of the theft of certain chickens belonging to one Newt Carver, and excepts to the overruling of his motion for a new trial.

It appears from special ground 1 of the motion for a new trial that the solicitor of the city court in his argument to the jury made this statement: “Gentlemen of the jury, if you acquit this defendant you have got to brand the prosecutor Newt Carver and his wife Becky Carver before this community as wilful, malicious, and *316bloody liars.” Defendant’s counsel immediately objected to such remarks, and “moved the court to…