McLeod v. State

The writ of error brings for review judgment of conviction of murder in the second degree on an information charging murder in the second degree and filed in the Criminal Court of Record pursuant to the certification of an indictment charging the defendant with the offense of murder in the first degree but upon which the defendant had been tried in the Circuit Court of Polk County, Florida, convicted of murder in the second degree, and had been granted a new trial.

The first question presented in the brief for the plaintiff in error here, defendant in the court below, challenges the action of…