Blount v. State

HOLT, Associate Justice.

Appellant, 15 years of age, 127 pounds in weight, killed his father by cutting him in the stomach with a knife. He was indicted for second-degree murder, tried on that charge, convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 10 years which he is permitted to serve in the Apalachee Correctional Institution of the State of Florida as provided for in the sentence of the Court.

The affray took place at the ice plant in Starke, Bradford County Florida. Appellant’s father and mother and his sister drove there to secure ice before proceeding home between 5 and 6 o’clock in the…