Russell v. State of Florida

— Jim Russell, a negro, was indicted for the murder of. P. D. Williams in Taylor County on December 16, 1924, and was tried and convicted of murder in the first degree on June 26, 1925. He seeks a reversal of the judgment upon writ of error.

There are several assignments of error based upon objections made by the state attorney and sustained to questions propounded to witnesses by defendant’s counsel, but the principal point presented in this case is the assignment which challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the verdict.

The evidence in the case, which is presented by a bill of…