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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

MATTIE JOHNSON v. STATE OF FLORIDA
    29 So. (2nd) 32
    January Term, 1947
    February 11, 1947
    En Banc
    Rehearing Denied February 28, 1947
    
      A. L. Johnson, for appellant.
    
      J. Tom Watson, Attorney General, and Reeves Bowen, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.
   PER CURIAM:

Affirmed.

THOMAS, C. J., TERRELL and CHAPMAN, JJ., and McNEILL, Associate Justice, concur.

BUFORD, ADAMS and BARNS, JJ., dissent.

BUFORD,. J.,

dissenting:

■ In this case the defendant in the court below defended on the right of self-defense.

As I read her testimony, it makes a clear case of self-defense.

I find the evidence adduced to overcome the evidence that defendant acted in self-defense extremely meager and unsatisfactory.

It is well settled in this jurisdiction that in criminal cases where the evidence relied upon to establish some essential ■element of the offense was not satisfactory the judgment will be reversed. See Smith v. State, 101 Fla. 1066, 132 So. 840, and cases there cited.

Because of the fraility of the evidence to establish the fact that the accused did not act in her lawful self-defense, I think the judgment should be reversed.

ADAMS and BARNS, JJ., concur.