Hardaway v. State

Citations

• 99 Miss. 223
• 54 So. 833

Syllabus

<p>Crimihai, Law. Appeal to race prejudice. District attorney.</p> <p>Where the prosecuting attorney in his closing argument, unrebuked by the court and over the protest of defendant, appealed to race prejudice by suggesting ‘to the jury that they believe the state witness instead of defendant for the reason that the state witness was a white man and defendant was a negro, it was reversible error.</p>