Supreme Court of Florida, 1937

Fields v. State

Supreme Court of Florida · Decided February 1, 1937 · Ellis, Whitfield, Terrell, Brown, Buford, Davis

172 So. 357; 127 Fla. 17 (Southern Reporter)

Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam.

Writ of error is to judgment of conviction .of murder in the first degree without recommendation to mercy.

*18 The only question presented challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to establish the element of premeditated design.

Under the rule stated in the case of Lowe v. The State of Florida, 90 Fla. 255, 105 Sou. 829, and cases there cited, there was ample evidence to warrant the jury in reaching the verdict upon which the judgment is based.

The judgment should be affirmed.

It is so ordered.

Affirmed.

Ellis, C. J., Whitfield, Terrell, Brown, Buford, and Davis, J. J., concur.

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