Vogel v. State

(dissenting). — The principal question presented in this case is whether the verdict is sufficiently certain to sustain the judgment.

The plaintiff in error, Bonnie Vogel, was informed against in the Criminal Court of Record for Dade County, upon the charge of feloniously assaulting Clayton Vogel from a premeditated design to effect his death. The offense was alleged to have been committed in April, 1935, in Dade County.

The accused was tried in June, 1935, and the jury returned a verdict in the following words: “We, the jury, find the Defendant Bonnie Vogel Guilty of attempted Manslaughter,…