Jacobs v. State
Supreme Court of Florida
This case was decided by Division A. Writ of error to the Circuit Court for Marion county. The facts in the case are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtTaylor, C. J.
The plaintiff in error, William Jacobs, was indicted, tried and convicted of the crime of carnal abuse of a female child under the age of ten years, at the spring term, 1903, of the Circuit Court for Marion county, was sentenced to death and seeks reversal here by writ of error.
The error assigned is the denial of the defendant’s motion for a new trial. The fifth ground of this motion is as follows: “Because of a fatal variance between the allegation and the proof in said cause, in this, that the indictment charges the offense to have been committed on one Rosa Lee Nelson, and the testimony by…
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