Sanford v. State

By information in the Criminal Court of Record of Dade County, the defendant was charged with the crime of murder in the second degree. To this information a plea of not guilty was entered. The trial resulted in a verdict finding the defendant guilty of manslaughter. There was a motion for new trial, hut the trial court denied this motion. To review the judgment imposed, writ of error was taken. There are a number of assignments of error. We will refer to such of them as seem to require consideration.

Several assignments are predicated upon rulings of the trial court, made when the case was…