REUBEN DAVIS AND RACHEL SMITH, PLAINTIFFS IN ERROR,
v.
THE STATE OF FLORIDA, DEFENDANT IN ERROR

Fla. | 1918-08-05
All concur.
76 Fla. 179 Florida Supreme Court (1918) Positive Treatment
Cited by 39 cases
Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam.

Per Curiam.

Plaintiffs in error were convicted of murder in the first degree with a recommendation to the mercy of the court and under the statute sentenced to life imprisonment. Sections 3205, 3994, Gen. Stats. 1906, Compiled Laws, 1914.

The evidence of the identity of the plaintiffs in error as being the guilty parties is such that it is considered just and right that a new trial should be granted. Platt v. State, 65 Fla. 253, 61 South. Rep. 502; Nims v. State, 70 Fla. 530, 70 South. Rep. 565.

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  • Fuller v. State, 92 Fla. 873 (Fla. 1926)
    …the accused as being the guilty party was not satisfactory, and also where the verdict was not in accord with the manifest justice of the case. See: Platt v. State, 65 Fla. 253; 61 South. Rep. 502; Nims v. State, 70 South. Rep. 565; Davis v. State, 76 Fla. 179; 79 South. Rep. 450; Ming v. State, 89 Fla. 280; 103 South. Rep. 618. This Court has also said that: “The verdict of a jury will not be set aside on evidence of facts complicated and contradictory and which require an investigation into the characte…
  • Lowe v. State, 154 Fla. 730 (Fla. 1944)
    …2 Fla. 973, 110 So. 528; Ming v. State, 89 Fla. 280, 103 So. 618; Platt v. State, 65 Fla. 253, 61 So. 502; Townsend v. State, 95 Fla. 139, 116 So. 7; Coker v. State, 83 Fla. 672, 93 So. 176; Knowles v. State, 86 Fla. 270, 97 So. 716; Davis v. State, 76 Fla. 179, 79 So. 450. The judgment appealed from is reversed and a new trial awarded. BROWN, THOMAS and ADAMS, JJ., concur. BUFORD, C. J., TERRELL and SEBRING, JJ., dissent.…
  • Smith v. State, 132 So. 840 (Fla. 1931)
    …565; Fuller vs. State, 92 Fla. 873, 110 So. 528; Ming vs. State, 89 Fla. 280, 103 So. 618; Platt vs. State, *Page 1069 65 Fla. 253, 61 So. 502; Townsend vs. State, 95 Fla. 139, 93 So. 176; Knowles vs. State, 86 Fla. 270, 97 So. 716; Davis vs. State, 76 Fla. 179, 79 So. 450. " Under authority of the opinion in that case, and those cited therein, we feel that justice demands a reversal of the judgment in this case, because the evidence upon which the State relied for a conviction is so unreasonable, contrad…

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