Purdy v. State

CHAPMAN, J.:

The appellant, Cornelius Purdy, alias Buck Purdy, on March 27, 1941, was convicted of murder and sentenced to death by electrocution. On January 13, 1942, an appeal from said judgment and sentence entered in the Circuit Court of Duval County, Florida, was taken to the Supreme Court, and some nine months intervened between the date of the sentence and the time of taking an appeal therefrom.

On January 27, 1942, a motion to dismiss said appeal was filed in this Court on the ground that the appeal was not taken within the ninety day period as provided for by Section 288 of the…