Hodge v. State

OPINION

ONION, Presiding Judge.

These are appeals from five convictions for the delivery of heroin, where the punishment was assessed by the jury at eleven (11) years’ confinement in each case following a guilty verdict.

Appellant contends in his first three grounds of error that the prosecutor committed reversible error in her argument during the penalty stage of the trial “by inviting the jury to apply the parole law in assessing punishment.”

The pertinent portion of the argument follows:

“MS. LA GARDE [Prosecutor]: . .. Ladies and Gentlemen, today you are the they that is being referred to and…