Douglas v. State

TAYLOR, Associate Justice.

Charles Lamár Douglas was convicted of the murder in the first degree of one Jack Johnson and has appealed.

The evidence on behalf of the State is entirely circumstantial.

Numerous assignments of error relate to the admission, over defendant’s objections, of evidence of statements made by others in the presence of the accused.

The law on this subject is stated in prior decisions of this Court as follows:

“In Autrey v. State, 94 Fla. 229, 114 So. 244, 245, Mr. Justice Strum stated the rule to be:

“ ‘Where, on being accused of crime, with full liberty to speak, one remains…