Washington v. State

The plaintiff- in error, Abe Washington, was convicted of the murder of Laura Simmons, whom he killed upon a street in Jacksonville after chasing her for several hundred feet. Pursuing her for considerable dis*521tanee, after she fled from- her house where he assaulted her and threatened to kill her, he overtook her and cut her to death with a pocket knife.

The defense interposed seemed to be that the accused was, at the time of the homicide, under the influence of an intoxicating liquor called “shine” of which he had drunk, a half.hour before, about a glass half full and during an earlier part of…