SAM JACKSON
v.
STATE
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The Florida Supreme Court affirmed a conviction for second-degree murder, finding no reversible error in the trial court's proceedings. The court noted that the evidence presented could have supported a first-degree murder conviction.
No, there were no reversible errors. The evidence was sufficient to support the conviction, and the legal contentions raised by the plaintiff in error had been previously decided adversely to their position.
“The record discloses that there was ample evidence to have sustained a verdict of murder in the first degree.”
Establishes the sufficiency of the evidence presented at trial.
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The writ of error brings for review judgment of conviction of murder in the second degree.
The record discloses that there was ample evidence to have sustained a verdict of murder in the first degree.
We have carefully considered all contentions presented by the plaintiff in error and as each and all of such questions of law have heretofore been determined adversely to the contention of plaintiff in error in cases heretofore coming before this Court, no useful purpose can be served by repeating what we have said in reported opinions and judgments in regard to such contentions.
The entire record discloses no reversible error and, therefore, the judgment must be affirmed.
So ordered.
Affirmed.
Terrele, C. J., and Buford, and Thomas, J. J., concur.
Whjtfield, P. J., and Brown and Chapman, J. J., concur in the opinion and judgment.