Gantling v. State
Supreme Court of Florida
Writ of error to the Circuit Court for Hamilton county. Statement. The following is a statement of the Substance of the evidence in this cause, upon which the decision of the court is predicated: T. H. Alexander, for the State, testified; I know the defendant (pointing him out). I know Barr Groff, sometime in the fall of 1896 he came to me and we went out to the west side of the town of Jasper; we there found the remains of a dead human body.
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Writ of error to the Circuit Court for Hamilton county. Statement. The following is a statement of the Substance of the evidence in this cause, upon which the decision of the court is predicated: T. H. Alexander, for the State, testified; I know the defendant (pointing him out). I know Barr Groff, sometime in the fall of 1896 he came to me and we went out to the west side of the town of Jasper; we there found the remains of a dead human body. When I got there part of the body was uncovered. It had been covered up in that swamp; we uncovered it and came down and got Mr. Math James, the deputy…
1Opinion of the Court
Taylor, C. J.:
The plaintiff in error was indicted for murder in the first degree of one Lilly Gantling, at a special term of the Circuit Court for Plamilton county held in October, 1896. He was tried upon this indictment at the Fall term, 1897, was convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to die. This judgment was reversed by this court on writ of error, in April, 1898, and the cause remanded for a new trial. Gantling v. State, 40 Fla. 237, 23 South. Rep. 857. He was again tried at the January term, 1899, of the Circuit Court for Hamilton county upon the same indictment, was…
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