State v. Bedford

ROGERS, Justice.

Willie Ruth Bedford, a negro girl under seventeen years of age, was prosecuted for murder, found guilty as charged without capital punishment and sentenced to imprisonment for life in the state penitentiary. This appeal followed.

The errors of which appellant complains are embodied in sixteen bills of exception. We shall discuss only three of the bills.

Bill No. 3 was taken to the following remarks made by the district attorney in his closing argument to the jury:

“The law provides that a colored boy, guilty of a crime other than a capital crime, they send him out here on the…