Wilson v. State

The appellant was adjudged guilty of murder in the second degree after a jury trial and verdict. He was sentenced to twenty years in the State prison. This appeal presents a single point in which the appellant urges that the testimony of the two eyewitnesses to the homicide was so conflicting and contradictory as to how the homicide occurred that the conviction should be reversed and a new trial ordered.

The deceased, a female minor named Earnestine Kinchen, in the company of three male friends, went to the Cotton Club, a night club in Dade County, Florida. A man at the entrance said…