Garner v. State
Supreme Court of Florida
Writ of Error to the Circuit Coiirt for Suwannee county. STATE:.! ENT. The testimony as to tlie circumstances of the homicide is substantially as follows : According'to the State’s witnesses, Lasley, the deceased, and Lour others were in a room at Branford, at night, in September, 1800, and Lasley and two of them had been talking, when, as Tyson says, the defendant came in, “ either out of a backroom, or somewhere, ’5 and picked up a lantern and jerked it up and down, and…
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Writ of Error to the Circuit Coiirt for Suwannee county. STATE:.! ENT. The testimony as to tlie circumstances of the homicide is substantially as follows : According'to the State’s witnesses, Lasley, the deceased, and Lour others were in a room at Branford, at night, in September, 1800, and Lasley and two of them had been talking, when, as Tyson says, the defendant came in, “ either out of a backroom, or somewhere, ’5 and picked up a lantern and jerked it up and down, and about that time as the proprietors were about to close up, he picked up a glass and threw it and said “ilod damn it, let…
1Opinion of the Court
Raney, C. J.:
The defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree in February last in the Circuit Court of Sinva.nnee county.
*1281. The first error assigned is the “ overruling' of the defendant’s motion for a continuance and forcing him to trial while liis attorney was too sick to properly conduct the defense.”
The bill of exceptions shows that on the 18th day of February, L. B. Clifton was, on the application of counsel on both sides, sworn as stenographer, and the State Attorney announced ready, and, in answer to a question whether the defendant was ready to proceed. Mr. Grant, defendant's…
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