Roberts v. State of Florida

The plaintiff in error was indicted for the murder of W. A. Stone, alleged to have been committed on December 31, 1925, in the Pasadena Hotel. Stone died about two days afterwards in the Sarasota Hospital.

The circumstances of the killing, as nearly as can be gathered from the record, were as follows:

Stone and a man named Garrick went to the Pasadena Hotel and to a room occupied by Steve B. Roberts. Soon after entering the room the defendant, plaintiff in here, shot Stone with a pistol and as he turned to leave the room shot him again with a shotgun. As a result of the wounds inflicted Stone…