Case ID: fla_158/html/0094-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

RUBY JEAN HODELLA v. STATE OF FLORIDA
    27 So. (2nd) 674
    June Term, 1946
    November 1, 1946
    Special Division B
    
      
      Coe & Eggart, for appellant.
    
      J. Tom Watson, Attorney General, and Thomas V. Kiernan, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.
   BUFORD, J.:

Appellant being informed against for the crime of murder in the second degree, was convicted of manslaughter and perfected her appeal to this court.

The burden of appellant’s contention is that the evidence showed that the appellant was either guilty of murder in the first degree or guilty of nothing more than justifiable homicide.

We entertain the view that the evidence was sufficient to have sustained a conviction of murder in the first degree and it, therefore, was sufficient to sustain a conviction of any lesser degree of unlawful homicide. See Ammons v. State, 88 Fla. 444, 102 So. 642; Morrison v. State, 42 Fla. 149, 28 So. 97; Owens v. State, 65 Fla. 483, 62 So. 651; Stone v. State, 57 Fla. 28, 48 So. 996; Dedge v. State, 68 Fla. 240, 67 So. 43; Johnson v. State, 24 Fla. 162, 4 So. 535, approved and distinguished in Marshall v. State, 32 Fla. 462, 14 So. 92; Brown v. State, 31 Fla. 207, 12 So. 640.

No reversible error being made to appear, the judgment is affirmed.

So ordered.

CHAPMAN, C. J., BROWN, J., and BARNS, Circuit Judge, concur.