Haddock v. State

Plaintiff in error, Robert B. Pladdock, was informed against by the County Solicitor of Polk County, Florida, on the 18th day of January, 1936, in the Criminal Court of Record of said county for the unlawful killing of Guy Harvard Haynes, Jr, on July 2, 1934. The defendant upon arraignment, filed or entered a plea of not guilty and was placed upon trial and was by a jury of Polk County convicted on October 14, 1938, of murder in the second degree. A motion for a new trial and other motions were made and overruled and the defendant was by the trial court sentenced to serve a period of twenty…