Padgett v. State
Decision Date | 26 September 1935 |
Citation | 163 So. 291,121 Fla. 42 |
Parties | PADGETT v. STATE. |
Court | Florida Supreme Court |
Rehearing Denied Oct. 5, 1935.
En Banc.Error to Circuit Court, Santa Rosa County; L. L. Fabisinski, Judge.
L. D Padgett was convicted of murder in the first degree, and he brings error.
Affirmed.
COUNSEL T. Franklin West and J. T. Wiggins, both of Milton, for plaintiff in error.
Cary D Landis, Atty. Gen., and Roy Campbell, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
The writ of error brings for review a judgment of conviction of murder in the first degree without recommendation to mercy.
We have carefully examined basis for the several assignments of error and find no reversible error is made to appear.
It is strenuously contended that the evidence is not sufficient to prove the material element of premeditated design.
The main proof of the guilt of the accused is found in the written and signed confession of the accused, which is as follows:
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