Conn v. State

Conn was convicted and sentenced for receiving personal property which he knew had been stolen and feloniously taken from another. Section 2249, Miss. Code 1942. He claims the Court committed two reversible errors.

One was the refusal of the Court to grant a mistrial because of the following remarks of the district attorney in his closing argument to the jury: “The defendant sits there looking at the ground, but can’t look decent people in the eye”. The Court sustained an objection to these remarks and instructed the jury to disregard them but refused to grant a mistrial. The defendant had…