Sue v. State

BROOKS, Judge.

This is a conviction for murder in the second degree, the punishment assessed being twenty-five years confinement in the State -penitentiary.

Appellant’s bill of exceptions, No. 5, complains that the court refused to permit his counsel to make a statement to the jury of the facts that he expected to prove on the trial of this cause. Appended to the bill of exceptions is the following qualification: “Defendant’s attorney was permitted to make a statement to the jury and began, after he had made a few remarks, the State objected to him proceeding because the statement was…