Grant v. State
Supreme Court of Florida
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court for Duval county. The facts of the case are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Mabry, J.:
The indictment against the plaintiff in error was for murder, and the sentence of the court pronounced, against him was confinement in the State penitentiary for life, based upon a verdict of guilty of murder in-the first degree with a recommendation of mercy to the-court.
*293A motion in arrest of judgment was made and overruled. The first ground of the motion is, “that the allegations in the indictment are not sufficient to •charge the defendant with murder in the first degree, ■hut that necessary and material allegations to constitute such charge are not therein made, and that…
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