Beville v. State
Supreme Court of Florida
; .This case was decided by Division B. ■ Writ of error to the Circuit Court for Sumter County. The facts in the case are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtTaylor, J.
The plaintiff in error John Beville under an indictment charging him with murder in the first degree was tried and convicted of murder in the third degree in the circuit court of Sumter county, and seeks reversal of the judgment and sentence imposed by writ of error.
The defendant pleaded in abatement to the indictment on the ground that the grand jury that found the indictment had been illegally summoned and empaneled. The following facts appear from the minutes of the court embodied in the plea in abatement as a part thereof.
The court convened at the time fixed by law for the fall term in…
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