Legal Opinion

Webb v. State

Supreme Court of Florida

Decided January 9, 1953PublishedCited by 3 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

TERRELL, Acting Chief Justice.

Appellant was tried for murder in the first degree. He was convicted of murder in the second degree and sentenced to a term of twenty-five years at hard labor in the state penitentiary. We are confronted with an appeal from that judgment.

It is contended that the trial court committed error in permitting the introduc-duction in evidence of a photograph of the deceased.

There is no merit to this contention. The trial Court inspected the photograph before it was admitted in evidence, there was nothing gruesome or hideous about it to arouse the passion of the jury and…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Goddard v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1940
  2. Daugherty v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1944

3Cited by3 opinions

  1. Raines v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1953
  2. Cullaro v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1957
  3. Taylor v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1996

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