McGOWAN v. STATE

No. M-302.

240 So.2d 512 (1970)

Thomas David McGOWAN, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

July 21, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis O. Frost, Jr., Public Defender, Gerald Sohn, Asst. Public Defender, for appellant.

Earl Faircloth, Atty. Gen., Wallace E. Allbritton, Asst. Atty. Gen., Horace A. Knowlton, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.


SPECTOR, Judge.

Appellant seeks reversal of a judgment of conviction for manslaughter for which he was sentenced to a term of six months to twenty years which was entered after a jury trial. The information on which the trial was had charged appellant with murder in the second degree.

The homicide occurred during the course of an altercation outside a saloon in Jacksonville about two o'clock in the morning. Appellant and his girlfriend had earlier visited...

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