Legal Opinion
Jackson v. State
Supreme Court of Florida
Decided September 6, 1961No. 40090PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
132 So.2d 596 (1961)
Herman JACKSON, Jr., Appellant,
v.
STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 40090.
Supreme Court of Florida.
September 6, 1961.
I.C. Smith, West Palm Beach, for appellant.
Richard W. Ervin, Atty. Gen., and B. Clarke Nichols, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.
HOBSON, Justice.
This is a direct appeal from a judgment of guilt of the crime of rape and sentence of death imposed by the circuit court of Palm Beach County. The evidence shows that on February 26, 1960 shortly before 8:00 P.M. the prosecutrix, a 13 year old white girl, was forcibly taken from a roadside telephone booth near her home in…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Brown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- McVeigh v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1954
- Granville-Smith v. Granville-SmithSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
3Cited by13 opinions
- Herman Jackson, Jr. v. L. L. Wainwright, Director, Division of Corrections, State of FloridaCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1968
- Brown v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1971
- Davis v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1969
- Myrick v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1965
- Elsleger v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1987
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