STATE EX REL. JOHNSON v. MAYO


69 So.2d 307 (1954)

STATE ex rel. JOHNSON v. MAYO.

Supreme Court of Florida. Division A.

Rehearing Denied January 25, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ernest D. Jackson, Jacksonville, Francisco A. Rodriguez, Tampa, and Releford McGriff, Jacksonville, for petitioner.

Richard W. Ervin, Atty. Gen., and Bart Cohen, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.


SEBRING, Justice.

This is a proceeding wherein the petitioner has applied to this Court for the issuance of a writ of habeas corpus upon the ground that the death sentence heretofore imposed upon him for the commission of a murder in the first degree "is excessive and discriminatory and deprives him of the equal protection of the law as required by section 1, Declaration of Rights, Constitution of the State of Florida [F.S.A.], and by the Fourteenth Amendment to the...

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