Joe v. State
Supreme Court of Florida
Appeal from Leon Circuit Court. Jbe, the Appellant was indicted for administeringto a female slave named Rebecca, white arsenic or poison.
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Appeal from Leon Circuit Court. Jbe, the Appellant was indicted for administeringto a female slave named Rebecca, white arsenic or poison. The prisoner pleaded not guilty, and on the trial, the woman, Rebecca was examined on tbe part of the State who .testified that whilst she was cooking breakfast at a fire out of doors at which prisoner was also cooking, he, the prisoner handed her a small breakfast plate containing some beef haslet which he had been cooking and asked her to oat some. She eat about six mouthfuls of-it, and immediately afterwards felt a pain in the heart. She also felt as if…
1Opinion of the Court
BALTZELL, O. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court:
This is an appeal from a conviction and sentence of death, passed upon the prisoner Joe on a charge of having administered poison and white arsenic to a negro woman, [Rebecca. She did not die from the alleged effects, but is examined as the only witness to the facts of the case, excepting the medical attendant.
But little complaint is made of the instructions given to the jury, which seem to have been drawn with exceeding care and caution on the part of the Judge below, and are, on the whole, liberal to the prisoner. [Reliance is placed in…
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