Lamb v. Harris

Statement. — The petitioner, John L. Lamb, was on March 27, 1925, convicted of murder in the first degree with- recommendation to mercy, in the Circuit Court of Manatee County, over which Hon. W. T. Harrison, the Judge of the Circuit Court for the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit of Florida, in and for said Manatee County, was presiding, and was, pursuant to the statute, sentenced to life imprisonment. Writ of error was taken from said judgment to this court, and the judgment of conviction was affirmed at the preceding term of this court and motion for rehearing was denied on February 10, 1926, at…