Per Curiam.
In Griffin, the Supreme Court of the United States held that "comment" by the trial court and by the prosecutor "on the [defendant's] failure to testify violated the selfincrimination clause of the Fifth Amendment which we made applicable to the states by the Fourteenth," even though such comment was authorized by the provisions of the California Constitution.
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