Case ID: fla_95/html/0821-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Terrell, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Henry Smith, Plaintiff in Error, v. State of Florida, Defendant in Error.
    
    Division B.
    Opinion Filed April 26, 1928.
    
      F. W. Marsh, Attorney for Plaintiff in Error;'
    
      Fred H. Davis, Attorney General, and II. E. Carter, Assistant Attorney General, for Defendant in Error.
   Terrell, J.

Plaintiff in error was indicted and tried for murder and convicted of manslaughter in the Circuit Court of Escambia County. By writ of error he comes here challenging his conviction. The main question brought up for our consideration is the sufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict. The evidence was circumstantial. We do not think it meets the circumstantial evidence rule prescribed' by this Court in Hall v. State, 90 Fla. 719, 107 Sou. 246 and eases there cited, so the judgment below is reversed and a new trial awarded.

Reversed.

Whitfield, P. J., and Buford, J., concur.

Ellis, C. J., and Strum and Brown, J. J., concur in the opinion and judgment.