Clark v. State

ALLEN, Judge.

Levon Clark, the defendant below and appellant here, sometimes known as “Cigar,” appeals from a verdict of the jury and sentence of the court on a second degree murder charge and from a denial of a motion for a new trial.

Levon Clark, Robert Collins and Gussie Mae Williams, who was the common law wife of the deceased, James Williams, were jointly charged in a grand jury indictment alleging that they, with force and arms at Palm Beach County unlawfully and from a premeditated design, did kill and murder James Williams in said county by drowning him.

Robert Collins was found guilty…