Marshall v. State
Supreme Court of Florida
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court for Columbia county. The facts of the case are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Eattet, C. J. :
The jury found the plaintiff in error guilty of murder in the second degree, and the sentence prescribed by the law (sec. 2380 Rev. Stat.), imprisonment in the State prison for life, was pronounced by the court; and it is contended here that the testimony does not sustain the verdict. The stated section of the Revised Statutes has, as will appear by comparing it with sec. 2, p. 350, McClellan’s Digest, made a change in the law of murder as it stood at the time the revision became operative (June 13th, 1892). There are still three degrees of murder, but they are defined as…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Eiland v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1875
- Darry v. . the PeopleNew York Court of Appeals · 1854
- Sullivan v. McMillanSupreme Court of Florida · 1890
- Morris v. SternIndiana Supreme Court · 1881
- Brown v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1893
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3Cited by19 opinions
- Holland v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1897
- Cook v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1903
- McCoy v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1898
- Gantling v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1898
- Greene v. HoiriisDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1958
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