Pearce v. State

Floyd Pearce was indicted for the murder of L. J. Adams, in Columbia County, and convicted of manslaughter.

The first two assignments of error rest upon an order denying a motion for a continuance. The grounds of the motion, as accurately as the same may be gathered from the record, seem to be that there were two witnesses living in Georgia whose testimony was desired and that about a month before the trial counsel obtained the Court’s order “permitting and allowing the defendant a commission or commissions to take the testimony of material witnesses absent from the State of Florida”; that…