Crawford v. State

The plaintiff in error hereafter referred to as the defendant, was convicted in the Circuit Court for Dade County of the murder of Joseph C. Keene and was sentenced to punishment by death. The case is here upon writ of error. The crime was alleged to'have been committed in Dade County, Florida, on the 19th day of March, 1914, the indictment was filed May 15th of that year, and the defendant was put upon trial on the 25th day of that month.

There was evidence tending to show that the defendant and the deceased had been friends for many years, they moved from another part of the State to Dade…