Case ID: fla_158/html/0184-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "BUFORD, J.:", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

JOE BROOKS v. STATE OF FLORIDA
    28 So. (2nd) 261
    June Term, 1946
    December 10, 1946
    En Banc
    
      Billie B. Bush and W. Marion Hendry, for appellant.
    
      J. Torn Watson, Attorney General, Reeves Bowen, Assistant Attorney General, and Jesse F. Warren, Special Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.
   BUFORD, J.:

Appellant, having been indicted and convicted of murder in the first degree, has perfected his appeal to this court.

The only question which he presents for our consideration is, as stated by appellant:

“Considering the facts in this case, is four or five minutes a sufficient length of time for premeditation?”

The contention of appellant is that he did not have more than four or five minutes before the homicide in which to form and entertain a premeditated design to effect the death of the deceased. The record shows that the appellant not only had ample time in which to form and entertain a premeditated design to effect the death of the deceased, but it also shows he did do exactly that and that, pursuant to such premeditated design, he did, without justification or excuse, shoot and kill the deceased.

No reversible error is made to appear.

The judgment should be affirmed on authority of our opinions and judgments in Crawford v. State, 146 Fla. 727, 1 So. (2nd) 713; Ryan v. State, 83 Fla. 610, 92 So. 571; Lowe v. State, 90 Fla. 255, 105 So. 829; Matthews v. State, 130 Fla. 53, 177 So. 321.

It is so ordered.

Affirmed.

CHAPMAN, C. J., TERRELL, THOMAS, ADAMS, and BARNS, JJ., and HARRISON, Circuit Judge, concur.