McCoy v. State

Carter, J.:

At a term of the Circuit Court of Lafayette county, held in March, 1898, plaintiffs in error were convicted of murder in the third degree, and from the sentence imposed sued out this writ of error. The indictment alleged that defendants in Lafayette county, Florida, on October 16, 1897, with force and arms a deadly weapon, to-wit: a rifle charged with gun powder and leaden bullets, which rifle Charles McCoy then and there held in his hands, in and upon one Tuck George, unlawfully and from a premeditated design to effect his death, did *497make an assault; that McCoy did then and there…