Golson v. State

Appellant Willie Frank Golson, Jr., appeals directly to this Court from an adverse judgment and sentence to life imprisonment consequent upon a jury verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree with the recommendation to mercy.

Golson was indicted with two others for first degree murder. One Roger Cowan was found on Sunday, June 9, 1968, at an ABC Liquor Store in St. Petersburg, where -he worked, dead from a gunshot wound in the area of his head and neck.

The evidence for the State was largely circumstantial. No weapon was found on the premises. A doctor testified that the wound was in the…