Smith v. State

*738OPINION

FONES, Chief Justice.

Ronald Russell Smith and William Raymond Beard, Jr., were' convicted upon a joint trial for armed robbery. Both men received sentences of twenty-five (25) years in the state penitentiary which were upheld by the Court of Criminal Appeals. Judge W. Wayne Oliver dissented from that court’s denial of the defendants’ petitions to rehear. We granted certiorari and have heard oral argument limited to the issues of whether the closing argument of the assistant district attorney general was improper, and if so, was it prejudicial.

Defendants’ petitions to rehear filed in…