WASHINGTON v. STATE

No. 1328.

118 So.2d 650 (1960)

George WASHINGTON, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida. Second District.

March 16, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

D.C. Laird, Lakeland, for appellant.

Richard W. Ervin, Atty. Gen., and Edward S. Jaffry, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.


KANNER, Acting Chief Judge.

The jury found George Washington guilty of murder in the second degree and the court below, sentenced him to twenty years in the state prison. He advances this appeal upon the propositions that the court improperly admitted hearsay testimony and that the state failed to prove the corpus delicti.

The wife of the appellant, Myrtle Jones Washington, was the victim of the crime charged against...

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