Blount v. Florida
Supreme Court of Florida
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court for Hills-borough county. STATEMENT. The plaintiff in error, Huararcher B. Blount, was indicted in June, A. D. 1891, in the Circuit Court of the Sixth Judicial Circuit, for Polk county, for the murder of Robt. L. Parker.
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Writ of Error to the Circuit Court for Hills-borough county. STATEMENT. The plaintiff in error, Huararcher B. Blount, was indicted in June, A. D. 1891, in the Circuit Court of the Sixth Judicial Circuit, for Polk county, for the murder of Robt. L. Parker. On the application of the accused the venue in the cause was changed to Hills-borough county, in said Circuit, and at a term of the Circuit Court for thé latter county, held in December, A. D. 1891, said accused, upon arraignment and plea of not guilty, was tried and convicted of murder in the first degreewand recommended by the jury to the…
1Opinion of the Court
Mabry, J.:
The first and third assignments of error may be considered together. The third assignment is, that *291the court erred in denying defendant’s motion in arrest of judgment; and the grounds of this motion are :
1st. The court erred in omitting to-charge the jury that it was competent for them to convict the defendant of some lesser degree of felonious homicide other than that charged in the indictment;
2d. The court erred in omitting to charge the jury as to the lesser degrees of murder, and the different degrees of manslaughter ;
3d.-The court erred in confining the jury in his charge to a…
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