Legal Opinion

Lindsey v. State

Supreme Court of Florida

Decided October 28, 1913PublishedCited by 23 opinions

Writ of error to Circuit Court of Santa Rosa County; J. Emmett Wolfe, Judge.

1Opinion of the CourtTaylor, J.

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter referred to as the defendant, on an indictment charging him with murder in the first degree, was convicted, in the Circuit Court of Santa Rosa County, of manslaughter, and from the judgment and sentence imposed takes writ of error here.

*342One David Mitchell as a witness for the State testified that he arrested the defendant after the tragedy, and found him in a very drunken condition, so that he had to lift him into a buggy to take him off; that while in this condition the defendant, without any threats or holding out of any promises or hope of reward, or…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Eskridge v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1854
  2. State v. FeltesSupreme Court of Iowa · 1879
  3. State v. HoganSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1906
  4. White v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1894
  5. State v. GrearSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1881

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3Cited by23 opinions

  1. Bryant v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1962
  2. DeConingh v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1983
  3. State ex rel. West v. ButlerSupreme Court of Florida · 1915
  4. Redwine v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1952
  5. State v. WarnerSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1967

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