Legal Opinion

McCoy v. State

Supreme Court of Florida

Decided January 15, 1879PublishedCited by 2 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Van Valkenburgh

This was an information identical in the questions raised upon the trial with the case of Eichard Evans vs. The State, decided at this term of the court, and the decision of such questions in that case disposes of this.

There was in this case a motion for a new trial, as in that case, denied by the court, one ground of which was “that the verdict is unsupported by and against the weight of the evidence.” The defendant’s counsel insists that there was no proof before the jury as to the time when the of-fence charged was committed, and, second, that the proof was insufficient to connect the…

2Cited by2 opinions

  1. Lowman v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1920
  2. Alexander v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1898

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