DIXON, Chief Justice.
Willie Fullilove was convicted of simple robbery and sentenced to five years at hard labor. He has appealed, assigning as error the trial judge's refusal to grant a mistrial when the prosecutor made reference to the defendant's constitutional right not to testify in his own behalf.
The evidence adduced at trial consisted of testimony by the victim of the robbery and by the off-duty deputy sheriff who, upon seeing the assailant flee from...
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