Harrelson v. State

SPECTOR, Chief Judge.

Appellant was convicted of robbery and now seeks reversal of his conviction and sentence of twenty-five years to run consecutively to a sentence being served in the federal penitentiary. The primary contentions raised on appeal are that the trial court erred in failing to grant a continuance of the trial because of news stories published shortly before trial was to commence; and, secondly, appellant contends the prosecutor’s closing argument to the jury was so inflammatory as to prejudice the jury against the defendant.

We have carefully reviewed the issues raised by…