Bessie Cannon v. State of Florida

— The plaintiff in error was indicted for manslaughter, Harold Fox being charged in the same count, by a sentence added at the end thereof, as accessory before the fact to the same offense, and the jury found both defendants guilty as charged “with recommendation of mercy for Harold Fox.” The defendant, Bessie Cannon, plaintiff in error here, was sentenced to the penitentiary for a period of five years and has taken writ of error to review the judgment of conviction.

The gravaman of the charge against this defendant was that by her act, procurement or culpable negligence she recklessly drove…