MEGILL v. STATE

No. 68-1117.

231 So.2d 539 (1970)

Charles MEGILL, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

February 17, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hughlan Long, Public Defender, and Maurice Jay Kutner, Asst. Public Defender, for appellant.

Earl Faircloth, Atty. Gen., and Harold Mendelow, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

Before PEARSON, C.J., and CHARLES CARROLL and SWANN, JJ.


PER CURIAM.

This appeal is by the defendant below from a judgment of conviction for first degree murder and a life sentence, based on a jury verdict of guilty with a recommendation of mercy.

Appellant presents two contentions. One is that the evidence was insufficient to support the conviction. Testimony which the jury was entitled to accept disclosed the following facts. The victim of the homicide was a woman named Margaret Megill. She and the defendant had...

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