State v. Johnson

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Nicholls, C. J.

The defendants indicted for larceny were convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary for six months. On the appeal, which they have taken from this verdict and sentence, they call our attention to two bills of exception in the record.

*88The first bill recites that “ on the trial of the case, during the concluding argument of the District Attorney, he used the following language, or its equivalent, to the jury: ‘ Gentlemen of the jury, if you find the accused not guilty you will clear the negroes, but you will convict Mr. Henderson of dirty,…