Palm v. State

On May 18th, 1938, Leroy Palm, plaintiff in error, was indicted by a grand jury of Leon County, Florida, for the crime of murder in the second degree. He was arraigned and filed a plea of not guilty to the said indictment and was placed upon trial before a jury and convicted of murder in the second degree, and by the trial court sentenced to the state pentientiary of Florida at hard labor for a period of twenty years. Plaintiff in error has perfected his appeal to this Court and has assigned as error here the refusal of the trial court to admit into evidence during the progress of the trial…