Hollland v. State
Supreme Court of Florida
Appeal from Suwannee Circuit Court. A statement of tbe case is contained in tbe opinion of tbe court.
1Opinion of the CourtDouglas, J.
The prisoner, John Holland, was indicted at the Fall Term of Suwannee Circuit Court for the killing of Melvin Brock.
On the trial he was found guilty of murder, and was sentenced by the court to suffer the penalties of the law, from which sentence he has appealed to this court. His counsel have endeavored to show in argument that the offence was manslaughter and not murder, and now asks that the judgment of the Circuit Court of Suwannee county be reversed and a new trial granted to the prisoner.
The material facts in the case, as disclosed by the evidence, are: That on the 2d day of August…
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