WATKINS v. STATE

No. 833.

197 So.2d 312 (1967)

Elizabeth WATKINS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida. Fourth District.

April 6, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clyde T. Windham, Public Defender, and David C. Clark, Asst. Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Earl Faircloth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Fred T. Gallagher, Asst. Atty. Gen., Vero Beach, for appellee.


MELVIN, WOODROW M., Associate Judge.

The appellant, Elizabeth Watkins, who is hereafter referred to as the defendant, has perfected her appeal from a judgment and sentence imposed upon her for the offense of murder in the second degree, and she assigns as error the refusal of the trial court to give the jury a requested charge relating to her right of non-necessity of retreat when attacked in her home. The defendant relies upon Hedges v. State, Fla. 1965, ...

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