PAIT v. STATE


112 So.2d 380 (1959)

Jesse Coolidge PAIT, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Florida.

Rehearing Denied May 27, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harvie S. DuVal, Miami, and Arthur A. Carlson, Hialeah, for appellant.

Richard W. Ervin, Atty. Gen., and Odis M. Henderson, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.


THORNAL, Justice.

Appellant Pait seeks reversal of a judgment of conviction and sentence to death entered pursuant to a jury verdict finding him guilty of murder in the first degree without recommendation of mercy.

Our judgment turns on certain aspects of the closing argument of the State Attorney.

Pait was indicted for the murder of one Adolf Rothman by shooting him with a pistol. The evidence submitted by the prosecution tended to establish that...

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