Legal Opinion

Webster v. State

Supreme Court of Florida

Decided January 15, 1904PublishedCited by 23 opinions

This case was decided by the court Bn Banc. Writ of error to the Circuit Court for Bradford county. The facts in the case are stated in the opinion of the court.

1Opinion of the CourtWhitfield, J.

— The plaintiff in error was indicted on October 16, 1901, in the Circuit Court for Bradford county for murder in the first degree for the homicide of one E. H. Fisher in Bradford county, Florida, on August 24, 1901. On November 3, 1903, he was arraigned and pleaded not guilty. At the trial on November 10, 1903, he was convicted of murder in the first degree, and from a death sentence he takes a writ of error to this court.

The first three assignments of error are on the overruling of a motion for a continuance of the cause “to the next regular term of the court upon the following grounds,…

2Cases cited19 opinions

  1. Wallace v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1899
  2. Savage v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1882
  3. Irvin v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1883
  4. Ballard v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1893
  5. Sylvester v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1903

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3Cited by23 opinions

  1. Ford v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1953
  2. Moore v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1910
  3. Reed v. State of FloridaSupreme Court of Florida · 1927
  4. Adams v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1908
  5. Irvin v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1906

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