Legal Opinion

West v. State

Supreme Court of Florida

Decided January 15, 1900PublishedCited by 12 opinions

Writ of Error to the Circuit Court for Jackson County. The facts in the case are stated in the opinion of the court.

1Opinion of the Court

Taylor, C. J.:

The plaintiff in error, defendant below, was indicted at the Fall term, 1898, of the Circuit Court for Jackson county for murder, was tried at the Spring- term, *2451899, of said court and convicted of murder in the first degree, recommended to mercy, and sentenced to life imprisonment, and took writ of error.

The indictment is as follows: “The grand jurors of the State of Florida, inquiring in and for the body of the county of Jackson, upon their oaths do present that one Raymond West, late of the county of Jackson aforesaid, in the Circuit and State aforesaid, on the sixth day…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Keech v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1876
  2. Killins v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1891
  3. Commonwealth v. McCormickMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1881
  4. United States v. HaskellU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Pennsylvania · 1823
  5. State v. . ScruggsSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1894

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3Cited by12 opinions

  1. People v. PeeteCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1921
  2. Nickels v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1925
  3. Freeman v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1915
  4. Manning v. StateTennessee Supreme Court · 1927
  5. Hinton v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 2009

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