DAVIS v. STATE

No. 68-119.

216 So.2d 87 (1968)

Lewis DAVIS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida. Second District.

November 27, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter R. Talley, Public Defender, Bradenton, for appellant.

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


LILES, Chief Judge.

Appellant, Lewis Davis, was charged in an information with murder in the second degree. He waived arraignment and entered a plea of not guilty. At a trial by jury, he was found guilty of manslaughter. After pre-sentence investigation the trial judge adjudged him guilty and sentenced him to fifteen years in the State prison.

Lewis Davis along with O.C. Kirkwood and witnesses, Almond Phillips, Jr., and Joe DeJournette, were engaged in a dice...

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