Mitchell v. State
Supreme Court of Florida
Writ of Error to the Circut Court for Escambia County. The facts of the case are stated in the opinion of the Court.
1Opinion of the CourtTaylor, C. J.
The plaintiff in error, William Mitchell, or Will Mitchell, as he is called in the indictment, was indicted and tried for, and convicted of, murder in the first degree for the homicide of one Aaron Hines, with recommendation to mercy, and sentenced to life imprisonment at the Fall term, 1900, of the Circuit Court of Escambia county, and from such sentence took writ of error here.
After two witnesses for the State had testified in-substance that they were present with the deceased and the defendant at an entertainment at the house of one Gaines on the night of the homjcide, and that at said…
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