Davis v. State

LILES, Chief Judge.

Appellant, Lewis Davis, was charged in an information with murder in the second degree. He waived arraignment and entered a plea of not guilty. At a trial by jury, he was found guilty of manslaughter. After pre-sentence investigation the trial judge adjudged him guilty and sentenced him to fifteen years in the State prison.

Lewis Davis along with O. C. Kirkwood and witnesses, Almond Phillips, Jr., and Joe Dejournette, were engaged in a dice game in Sarasota County, Florida. An argument arose regarding a bet and O. C. Kirkwood grabbed a five dollar bill that Lewis Davis…