Case Name: Nick Misleh v. State
Court: Florida Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1939-04-18
Citations: 137 Fla. 723
Docket Number: 
Parties: Nick Misleh v. State
Judges: Brown and Thomas, J. J., concur.
Reporter: Florida Reports
Volume: 137
Pages: 723–731

Head Matter:
Nick Misleh v. State
187 So. 388.
Division A.
Opinion Filed April 18, 1939.
Rehearing Denied May 18, 1939.
Pine & Giblin, Vincent C. Giblin and Louis M. Jepeway, for Plaintiff in Error;
George Couper Gibbs, Attorney General, and H. E. Carter, Thomas J. Ellis, Assistant Attorneys General, for the State.

Opinion:
Buford, J.
The plaintiff in error was1 convicted of murder in the second degree and sued out writ of error.
Several questions are presented by brief, but, because of the paucity of evidence tending to indicate guilt of the accused, we shall only advert to the insufficiency of the evidence.
There is no evidence in the record from which the jury might have concluded with any degree of certainty that the accused, or any other person, inflicted any mortal wound or hurt upon the deceased.
There is some evidence in the record that the accused did strike the deceased a blow with his hand or fist a short time before deceased died. But there is no evidence that death resulted therefrom and the evidence is not convincing that the accused was actually the person who had an altercation with deceased shortly before the death.
At most, the evidence is sufficient only to raise a bare suspicion that the defendant may have been responsible for the death of deceased.
So the judgment is reversed.
So ordered.
Brown and Thomas, J. J., concur.
Whi,tfield and Chapman, J. J., dissent.
Terrell, C. J., not participating.