Willingham v. State
Supreme Court of Florida
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court for Polk county. The facts of the case are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Raney
The plaintiff in error was indicted, at a special term of the Circuit Court held in Polk county in July, A. D. 1884, for the murder of "William McLaughlin in September, A. I). 1880. He was tided at the same term, and convicted of murder in the first degree, but recommended by the jury to the mercy of the court, and was sentenced to imprisonment in the State Penitentiary at hard labor for the term of his natural life. There was a motion in arrest of judgment and for a new trial, but it was overruled prior to the sentence. The errors assigned, and the proceedings upon which they are based, are…
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