Case Name: A. I. Baker, Plaintiff in Error, v. State of Florida, Defendant in Error
Court: Florida Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1929-09-25
Citations: 98 Fla. 483
Docket Number: 
Parties: A. I. Baker, Plaintiff in Error, v. State of Florida, Defendant in Error.
Judges: Terrell, C. J., and Ellis, J., concur.
Reporter: Florida Reports
Volume: 98
Pages: 483–484

Head Matter:
A. I. Baker, Plaintiff in Error, v. State of Florida, Defendant in Error.
Division A.
Opinion filed September 25, 1929.
Petition for rehearing denied November 18, 1929.
W. T. Bludworth, for Plaintiff in Error;
Fred H. Davis, Attorney General, and H. E. Carter, Assistant, for the State.

Opinion:
Brown, J.
Plaintiff in error was convicted of assault with intent to commit manslaughter. Certain testimony was admitted over his objection, but as it appears to have been part of the res gestae, the court was without error in admitting it. The testimony was in conflict. The defendant had the advantage so far as the number of witnesses was concerned, but there was by the testimony of two witnesses, sufficient evidence, if true, to sustain the verdict. Whether this evidence was true, was a question for the jury. They had the witnesses before them and heard them testify, and the trial judge, who had like opportunity, declined to set aside the verdict. Upon the testimony disclosed by the record, most of which was reduced to narrative form in an apparently hurried and haphazard manner, embracing also numerous clerical errors impairing its intelligibility, we would not be authorized to hold that the trial judge was in error in denying the motion for new trial.
Affirmed.
Terrell, C. J., and Ellis, J., concur.
.Whitfield, P.- J., and Strum and Buford, J. J., concur in the opinion and judgment.