Lewis v. State

SEBRING, J.:

Eddie Lewis, the defendant below, has appealed from a judgment finding him guilty of murder in the first degree. He assigns as error the sufficiency of the evidence to establish the element of a premediated design to kill, without which there can be no lawful conviction of murder in the first degree.

At the trial the state adduced independent proof of the corpus delicti which, together with a confession made by the defendant to the arresting officers, was sufficient to establish guilt of the crime charged if the jury saw fit to believe the evidence. When the defendant took the…