DOUGLAS v. STATE


89 So.2d 659 (1956)

Charles Lamar DOUGLAS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Florida. Special Division A.

September 26, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Earl Drayton Farr, Jr., Punta Gorda, for appellant.

Richard W. Ervin, Atty. Gen., and David U. Tumin, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.


TAYLOR, Associate Justice.

Charles Lamar Douglas was convicted of the murder in the first degree of one Jack Johnson and has appealed.

The evidence on behalf of the State is entirely circumstantial.

Numerous assignments of error relate to the admission, over defendant's objections, of evidence of statements made by others in the presence of the accused.

The law on this subject is stated in prior decisions of this Court as follows:

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