Case ID: fla_159/html/0771-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

FRANKLIN PITTS v. STATE OF FLORIDA
    32 So. (2nd) 753
    June Term, 1947
    December 5, 1947
    Division B
    
      Woodrow M. Melvin, for appellant.
    
      J. Tom Watson, Attorney General, and Ernest W. Welch, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.
   BUFORD, J.:

Appellant, defendant in the court below, being informed against for the crime of assault with intent to commit murder in the first degree, on conflicting evidence was convicted of assault with intent to commit murder in the second degree, and adjudged guilty of that offense. From the judgment he perfected appeal here.

There is in the record sufficient evidence, which if believed . by the jury, to warrant the verdict and judgment. The jury so found and the trial court concurred by denying motion for new trial.

Judgment should be affirmed on authority of McNish v. State, 47 Fla. 69, 36 So. 176 and cases there cited; also Rhodes v. State, 104 Fla. 520, 140 So. 309; Raker v. State, 84 Fla. 277, 94 So. 613; Fortner v. State, 119 Fla. 150, 161 So. 94; Herndon v. State, 73 Fla. 451, 74 So. 511; Barrentine v. State, 72 Fla. 1, 72 So. 280 Tucker v. State, 100 Flo. 1440 131 So. 327.

It is so ordered.

Affirmed.

THOMAS, C. J., ADAMS and BARNS, JJ., concur.