STATE v. SPIRES

No. 7073.

190 So.2d 824 (1966)

STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Robert T. SPIRES, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida. Second District.

October 7, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Glen Darty, State Atty., Bartow, and J.O. MacBeth, Asst. State Atty., Sebring, for appellant.

S. Colquitt Pardee, Avon Park, for appellee.


BARNS, PAUL D., Associate Judge.

The State appealed from a final judgment discharging the defendant, after being convicted of murder in the second degree. We affirm.

The defendant-appellee was tried on an indictment for murder in the first degree, charging him with the killing of James E. Wilkerson from a premeditated design to effect his death "by shooting him with a deadly weapon." At trial, it was established that Dora, the wife of James, shot James in...

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