Coffee v. State
Supreme Court of Florida
Writ of error to the Circuit Court for Marion county. The facts of the case arc stated in the opinion of tlie court.
1Opinion of the Court
Mitchell, J.:
The plaintiff in error was jointly indicted with Paul Barco and Holmes Jacobs for the murder of Henry B. Hammond, and the case was tried at a special term of the Circuit Court of Marion county, in the month of January, 18S9. A severance was granted and the plaintiff in error alone was tried.
The issues were submitted to a jury, who convicted Coffee of murder in the first degree, and the sentence of death was passed upon him, and he now brings his case before this court on a writ of error, and assigns the following errors:
1st. The court erred in allowing the confession of the…
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