Brown v. State
Supreme Court of Florida
Writ of error to the Circuit Court for Walton county. The facts in the case are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Raney, C. J.:
The indictment charges the plaintiff in error with murder in the first degree in killing Marvin Knowles on July 12th, 1891, in Walton county. The trial was in July 1892, and resulted in a verdict of manslaughter in the second degree, and sentence to imprisonment in the State prison for seven years.
I. The first error alleged is as to the following instructions given to the jury: “If the deceased was lawfully in possession of the house and premises when he was killed, and on which- he was living at the time of the killing, he was as exempt from hostile intrusion or from forcible…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Sullivan v. McMillanSupreme Court of Florida · 1890
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- Smith v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1889
- Ex parte PellsSupreme Court of Florida · 1891
- Pittman v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1889
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