Palmer v. State

Pee Cueiam.

This case is before the Court on writ of error from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Hills-borough County sentencing the plaintiffs in error to death for the murder of Joe B. Johnson.

The evidence shows that Joe B. Johnson, a well to do citizen of Tampa, was shot and killed on the night of Sunday, January 18th, 1931, near midnight, while he was putting his automobile in a garage in the rear of Crescent Apartments in Tampa. The motive was robbery. The shot that killed Johnson was fired by the plaintiff in error, Victor Palmer, who, according to his own confession and testimony at…