MANN, Judge.
If oratory comes, can reversal be far behind? In this case a zealous prosecutor, summing up to the jury, said, "This is your community. If you believe that Deputy Booth is lying on that witness stand, if you think that he's mistaken then you come in with a verdict of an acquittal and let him go back out in your community and handle more morphine."
The appellant was convicted of unlawful possession of narcotics, precisely the offense he was charged...
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