Supreme Court of Florida, 1926

Milton v. State

Supreme Court of Florida · Decided May 20, 1926 · Whitfield, Terrell, Buford, Brown, Ellis

108 So. 886; 91 Fla. 989 (Southern Reporter)

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Hyatt v. State (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1974)

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Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam.

— The judgment herein of conviction of manslaughter, charged to have been caused by culpable negligence in operating an automobile' on the streets of a city in this State, is justified by the evidence and no material errors of law or procedure are made to appear by the record, it being competent for eye-witnesses under the circumstances here shown, to testify as to the speed at which an automobile was being driven on the streets, Sec. 22 C. J. 567-572; Miller v. Jenness, 84 Kansas 608, therefore the judgment should be affirmed. See Hobbs v. State, 83 Fla. 480, 91 South. Rep. 555; Meier v. State, 87 Fla. 133, 99 South. Rep. 124; Denmark v. State, 88 Fla. 244, 102 South. Rep. 246; Shaw v. State, 88 Fla. 320, 102 South. Rep. 550; Cannon v. State, — Fla. —, 107 South. Rep. 360.

Affirmed.

Whitfield, P. J., and Terrell and Buford, J. J., concur. Brown, C. J., and Ellis, J., concur in the opinion.

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