Edwards v. State
Supreme Court of Florida
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court for Gadsden, county. The facts in the case are stated in the opinion. (Judge Broome, of the Seventh Judicial Circuit, sat in the place of Mr. Justice Carter, who was disqualified).
1Opinion of the Court
Taylor, C. J.:
At the Spring term, 1897, of the Circuit Court for Gadsden county, the plaintiff in error was tried and convicted of murder in the first degree, and, on the-recommendation of the jury to mercy, was sentenced to life imprisonment in the penitentiary. Prom this sentence he comes here by writ of error.
The errors assigned are as follows: 1st. The court erred in permitting the clerk of the court to place a file mark upon the indictment against the defendant nunc pro tunc, and that the record be amended so as to show that the indictment was returned against Samuel Edwards, and not…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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