Copeland v. State
Supreme Court of Florida
This case was decided by Division B. Writ of Error to the Circuit Court for Santa Eosa County. The facts in the case are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtTaylor, J.
The plaintiff in error brings here for review by writ of error a judgment of the Circuit Court of Santa Eosa County convicting him of murder in the first decree, with a recommendation of the jury to mercy, which reduced his sentence to life imprisonment.
There are thirty-one assignments of error; but we shall discuss those only that are argued here, treating the rest as abandoned.
A State’s witness,, who had testified to having seen the defendant and the deceased together at an abandoned dwelling house a short while before the deceased died in convulsions from the effect of poison, was…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Lester v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1896
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