Mullis v. State

STAKELY, Justice.

The appellant, Harris Mullís, Jr., was indicted for the offense of murder in the first degree. He entered a plea of not guilty and a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity. The jury returned a verdict of guilty as charged in the indictment and fixed the punishment at death by electrocution. From this sentence and the judgment thereon, this appeal comes here under the automatic appeals act.

On February 7, 1951, Luther Hardison, a Constable of the Third District of Dade County, Florida, left his- home alone in his car to go to Los Angeles, California, in order to bring back…