Case ID: fla_147/html/0699-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

J. D. Moye v. State of Florida
    3 So. (2nd) 403
    Special Division A
    Opinion Filed July 8, 1941
    
      Errol S. Wittes and Parker & Parker, for Plaintiff in Error.
    
      J. Tom Watson, Attorney General, and Fred M. Burns, Assistant Attorney General, for Defendant in Error.
   Per Curiam.

J. D. Moye, Mattie Moye and Melvin Jenkins were indicted for the crime of murder in the first degree. J. D. Moye was convicted of manslaughter and asks review on writ of error. Mattie Moye and Melvin Jenkins were acquitted.

The only challenge to the judgment is based on the question of the sufficiency of the evidence.

The record discloses that the evidence was amply sufficient to support a verdict and judgment of conviction of a higher degree of unlawful homicide than manslaughter against all the defendants. Why the two were acquitted is not apparent from the record but that such miscarriage of justice occurred is no reason why the appellant who inflicted the fatal w’ounds should not be punished.

On the whole record no reversible error is made to appear.

The judgment is affirmed.

So ordered.

Brown, C. J., Whitfield, Terrell and Buford, J. J., concur.

Adams, J., disqualified.