LEMON v. STATE


55 So.2d 556 (1951)

LEMON v. STATE.

Supreme Court of Florida, Division B.

December 4, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Garland W. Spencer, Sanford, and Tom Watson, Orlando, for appellant.

Richard W. Ervin, Atty. Gen., and Reeves Bowen, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.


MATHEWS, Justice.

The appellant was tried and convicted on a charge that he "did unlawfully ravish and carnally know and abuse Lucy Mae Brooks, a female child under the age of ten years, to-wit, the age of eight years".

The appellant has propounded two questions: first, Was the State's evidence sufficient to support a verdict of guilty? and; second, Was it error for the lower court to deny appellant's motion for a new trial? The lower court held the evidence...

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