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127 Fla. 246

168 So 813

Williams v. State

Supreme Court of Florida

Decided July 18, 1936

Supreme Court of Florida · decided 1936-07-18

Relies on Woodward v. State · Courson v. State

Decided 1936-07-18

Buford, J.

¶1 In this case the plaintiff was convicted of murder in the first degree without recommendation to mercy.

¶2 The record fails to disclose substantial evidence of a premeditated design to effect the death of the person killed. It, therefore, app'ears that the ends of justice will be sub-served by reversing the judgment and remanding the cause for a new trial. See Courson v. State, 113 Fla. 123, 151 *247 Sou. 542; Woodward, et al., v. State, 113 Fla. 301, 151 Sou. 509, and cases there cited.

¶3 It is so ordered.

¶4 Reversed.

Ellis, P. J., and Terrell, J., concur. Whitfield, C. J., and Brown and Davis, J. J., concur in the opinion annd judgment.
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