Henderson v. State of Florida

STATEMENT OF FACTS.

Plaintiffs in error were convicted on July 29, 1926, in the Circuit Court for Hillsborough County, of murder in the first degree and sentenced to death by electrocution. The case is before us for review upon writ of error sued out in November, 1926, the transcript being filed in this Court January 27, 1927. Pursuant to request, oral argument was granted and the case was argued orally before this Court on April 26, 1927.

There are thirty-eight assignments of error, a considerable portion of which have been abandoned.

At about nine o’clock on the night of May 11, 1926, two men…