Case ID: fla_85/html/0383-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Joseph Watson, Plaintiff in Error v. The State of Florida, Defendant in Error.
    
    Decision Filed April 9, 1923.
    A Writ of Error to the Circuit Court for Marion County; W. S. Bullock, Judge.
    
      Raymond B. Bullock, for Plaintiff in Error;
    
      Rivers Buford, Attorney General, and J. B. Gaines, Assistant, for the State.
   Per Curiam.

The judgment herein of conviction of murder in the first degree with a recommendation to mercy, is reversed on the authority of Nims v. State, 70 Fla. 530, 70 South. Rep. 565; Davis v. State, 76 Fla. 179, 79 South. Rep. 450; Baker v. State, 54 Fla. 12, 44 South. Rep. 719; Smithie v. State, 84 Fla. 498, 94 South. Rep. 156; Richardson v. State, 80 Fla. 634.

Reversed for new trial.

Taylor, C, J., and Whitfield, Ellis, Browne and West, J. J., concur.