Jordan v. State
Supreme Court of Florida
This case was decided by Division A. 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 CourtWhitfield, J.
The plaintiff in error was indicted in the Circuit Court for Walton county for an assault with intent to commit murder on one Will Williams. He was convicted of an “assault with intent to murder in the second degree,” and from a judgment sentencing him to the State Prison for four years brings this writ'of error.
At the trial M. M. Reeves a witness for the State testified: “I know Meredith Jordan. * * * I remember the circumstances of the shooting of Will Williams. It was a bright moonlight night. I heard the report of a gun. I saw a man come by my house two or three minutes after the…
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