BROOKS v. STATE


64 So.2d 914 (1953)

BROOKS v. STATE.

Supreme Court of Florida, en Banc.

May 5, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jesse F. Warren, Jr., Tallahassee, for appellant.

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


WARREN, Associate Justice.

Appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree of J.M. Hicks and sentenced to death.

The two questions presented by appellant related to the sufficiency of the evidence, and the propriety of the closing argument of the state attorney.

The body of the deceased was found early in the morning on a path between the railroad and the waterworks in the city of Apalachicola. He had been shot in the back with a shotgun and...

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