People v. Roger Johnson

On October 24,1965 a stabbing occurred in a hallway outside a dining room in Jackson prison. Prank Clark, a prison inmate, died as a result of knife wounds inflicted by defendant. The defendant, Boger Johnson, was proceeded against upon an information charging him with murder. He was found guilty of murder in the second degree by jury verdict.

On appeal to the Court of Appeals, that Court held that the cross-examination of defendant by the prosecutor was improper and that the prosecutor’s final argument to the jury with regard to the law as to self-defense constituted prejudicial error. The…