Brooks v. State

WARREN, Associate Justice.

Appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree of J. M. Hicks and sentenced to death.

The two questions presented by appellant related to the sufficiency of the evidence, and the propriety of the closing argument of the state attorney.

The body of the deceased was found early in the morning on a path between the railroad and the waterworks in the city of Apalachicola. He had been shot in the hack with a shotgun and bludgeoned about the head. Appellant made a confession in which he admitted he took part in a plan to shoot and rob Hicks, but claimed that another,…