Anderson v. State

OPINION

DALLY, Commissioner.

This is an appeal from a conviction for murder; the appellant’s punishment assessed by a jury is imprisonment for five thousand years. The judgment must be reversed because of the improper jury argument made by the Assistant District Attorney.

The evidence is that the appellant, after drinking beer and taking “pills,” armed himself with a sawed-off shotgun and knives, and then he broke into the house where his estranged wife, their eleven year old son, Mervin, and the brother of the appellant’s wife ' were living. While she was in bed, the appellant shot his wife…