House v. State

Citations

• 121 Miss. 436
• 83 So. 611

Syllabus

<p>Criminal Law. Where guilt of defendant manifest improper remarles of district attorney not reversible error.</p> <p>Where on a trial for murder the guilt of the defendant was manifest from the evidence and the jury under their oaths could not have arrived at any other verdict than that of guilty, it was not reversible error for the district attorney in his argument to comment on the fact that the defendant did not testify through such comment was in violation of Code 1906, section 1918 (Hemingway’s Code, section 1578) forbidding comment.</p>