Parker v. State

Plaintiff in error was indicted by a grand jury of Gilchrist County, Florida, on September 26, 1938, for the murder of J. T. Owens on the 3rd day of July, 1938, and upon arraignment entered a plea of not guilty to a crime charged in the indictment. He was placed upon trial and by a jury of Gilchrist County convicted of crime of murder in the first degree, without recommendation to mercy, and was by the trial court sentenced to death by electrocution, and from this judgment a writ of error has been perfected to this Court. It is contended here that the judgment of conviction and the death…