FREEMAN v. BLACKBURN


92 So.2d 262 (1957)

McKinley FREEMAN, Appellant, v. Ed BLACKBURN, Jr., as Sheriff of Hillsborough County, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Florida, Special Division A.

January 23, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Emmett J. Comiskey, Tampa, for appellant.

Richard W. Ervin, Atty. Gen., and Jos. P. Manners, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.


TERRELL, Chief Justice.

August 20, 1946, appellant was tried and convicted of "murder, first degree," in the Circuit Court of Randolph County, Alabama. Punishment of life imprisonment in the Alabama penitentiary was imposed wherein he was confined August 29, 1946, and from which he escaped April 10, 1953. He was at large until February 1956, when he was apprehended and taken in custody at Haines City, Florida. He was placed in jail at Tampa, Hillsborough County, where...

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