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111 Fla. 173

149 So 13

Council v. State

Supreme Court of Florida

Decided June 22, 1933

Supreme Court of Florida · decided 1933-06-22

Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently October 1938

4 state decisions

Relies on Fuller v. State · Platt v. State · Ming v. State

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Decided 1933-06-22

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Buford, J.

¶1 The plaintiff in error was convicted under the second count in an indictment charging him with the offense of assault with intent to murder.

¶2 The record discloses' very little, if any, evidence at all to sustain the verdict. ,

¶3 In Fuller v. State, 92 Fla. 873, 110 Sou. 528, we said:

“In considering this case, we are mindful of the oft repeated rule that in criminal prosecution, a verdict of guilty will not ordinarily be disturbed upon the ground of the insufficiency of the evidence, where there is some evidence from which all the elements' of the crime may have been legally found or inferred, and it does not appear that the jury was not governed by the evidence adduced at the trial. Exceptions to this rule, however, have been previously recognized by this Court in- criminal cases where the evi-. dence as' to the identity of the accused as being the guilty party was not satisfactory, and also where the verdict was not in accord with the manifest justice of the case. See: Platt v. State, 65 Fla. 253, 61 South. Rep. 502; Nims v. *174 State, 70 South. Rep. 565; Davis v. State,, 76 Fla. 179, 79 South. Rep. 450; Ming v. State, 89 Fla. 280, 103 South. Rep. 618.”

¶4 This enunciation has been followed in Troop, et al., v. State, 98 Fla. 385, 123 Sou. 811, and Williams v. State, 100 Fla. 814, 130 Sou. 456.

¶5 Because the evidence is not of a convincing character but on the contrary, bears the earmarks' of falsehood and uncertainty, the judgment should be reversed and it is so ordered.

¶6 Reversed.

Davis, C. J., and Whitfield, Ellis, and Terrell, J. J., concur. Brown, J., concurs in judgment of reversal.
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