State v. Tyler

[1] Appellant was convicted of the crime of embezzlement. He relies upon two bills of exception. The first exception was taken to a statement made by the district attorney in his argument to the jury. The statement, as copied in the bill, was:

“The Bible says that Saul has slain his thousand and David his tens of thousands; and so the bugaboo ‘reasonable doubt’ has freed more guilty men than any other one thing under the sun.”

We .agree with the trial judge that the argument, or comparison, was not unfair to *133the defendant. The purpose was to impress upon the jury that, although the defendant…