Case Name: RUBY JEAN HODELLA v. STATE OF FLORIDA
Court: Florida Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1946-11-01
Citations: 158 Fla. 94
Docket Number: 
Parties: RUBY JEAN HODELLA v. STATE OF FLORIDA
Judges: CHAPMAN, C. J., BROWN, J., and BARNS, Circuit Judge, concur.
Reporter: Florida Reports
Volume: 158
Pages: 94–95

Head Matter:
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.

Opinion:
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.