Keith v. State, (1935)
Court: Supreme Court of Florida
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Visitors: 8
Judges: DAVIS, J.
Attorneys: E.C. Boswell, of Geneva, Ala., for Plaintiff in Error.
Cary D. Landis, Attorney General, and Roy Campbell, Assistant, for the State.
Filed: Oct. 22, 1935
Latest Update: Mar. 02, 2020
Summary: This is a companion case to that of Millard Keith and Bonard Retherford v. State, decided at the present term (opinion filed September 17, 1935) wherein the judgments and sentence of death against the plaintiffs in error in that case were reversed because of the erroneous refusal of the trial judge to properly charge the trial jury as to the necessity of affirmatively proving the element of "intent to hold for ransom" when that is put in issue in a prosecution for the capital crime of felonious
Summary: This is a companion case to that of Millard Keith and Bonard Retherford v. State, decided at the present term (opinion filed September 17, 1935) wherein the judgments and sentence of death against the plaintiffs in error in that case were reversed because of the erroneous refusal of the trial judge to properly charge the trial jury as to the necessity of affirmatively proving the element of "intent to hold for ransom" when that is put in issue in a prosecution for the capital crime of felonious k..
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I think the judgment should be unconditionally affirmed.
WHITFIELD, C.J., concurs.
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