JACKSON v. STATE

No. 6323.

188 So.2d 857 (1966)

Amos JACKSON, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida. Second District.

July 20, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas H. Stokes, Asst. Public Defender, Sarasota, for appellant.

Earl Faircloth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and William D. Roth, Asst. Atty. Gen., Lakeland, for appellee.


PER CURIAM.

The defendant, Amos Jackson, was tried for the crime of first degree murder. The jury found him guilty of murder in the second degree and the court sentenced him to be confined in the state prison at hard labor for a period of thirty years.

The sufficiency of the evidence was not raised, nor argued, in the brief of the appellant. The sole question involved concerned the correctness of the trial court's instruction on proximate cause. At the close...

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