Perry v. State

In this case indictment was returned on July 2nd, 1930, charging the offense of murder in the first degree to have been committed by defendant on July 31st, 1927, in the unlawful killing of Alfonso Merritt.

The uncontradicted evidence is that the wounds of which Merritt died were inflicted by the accused on July 30th, 1927.

The defendant himself did not fix the date, but he did testify that he left the scene of the homicide soon after it was committed and went to Philadelphia, Pa., and that he arrived there on the 10th of August, 1927, and remained there until he was returned to Florida under…