Savage v. State

CHAPMAN, J.:

The appellant, Charles B. Savage, on November 21, 1941, was indicted by a Dade County grand jury for the crime of murder in the first degree. The indictment alleged that Charles B. Savage, on April 1, 1941, unlawfully and from a premeditated design to effect the death of Hannah Ford, alias Hannah Savage, did kill and murder her by submerging her beneath the water, thereby drowning, strangling and suffocating her. He entered a plea of not guilty to the indictment, was placed upon trial, and by a jury convicted of manslaughter. He challenged the sufficiency of the evidence adduced…