ERNEST MOSS
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA

Fla. | 1944-10-17
BUFORD, C. J., BROWN, THOMAS and SEBRING, JJ., concur.
155 Fla. 20 Florida Supreme Court (1944) Positive Treatment
Also reported at: 19 So. 2d 408
Cited by 6 cases

Opinion of the Court
PER CURIAM:

PER CURIAM:

Appellant, having been convicted of manslaughter under the provisions of Sec. 860.01 Fla. Stats, 1941 (same F.S.A.), *21has brought the record and judgment here for review on appeal.

The only question presented amounts to a challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict and judgment.

There is disclosed by the transcript of the record ample evidence, (which if believed by the jury,) to support the conviction.

No reversible error having been made to appear, the judgment is affirmed.

So ordered.

BUFORD, C. J., BROWN, THOMAS and SEBRING, JJ., concur.


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