Stanley v. State

The plaintiff in error, referred to hereinafter as the defendant, was tried in the criminal court of record of Dade County upon an information charging the crime of murder in the second degree. The jury returned a verdict for manslaughter and defendant was sentenced to the state prison for a term of years. The defendant sued out writ of error and assigned seven errors, but the second and fourth assignments are abandoned.

The first assignment is that the court erred in sustaining the objection by the State to the question propounded to a witness for defendant as follows: "Do you know the…