Bunch v. State

Citations

• 58 Fla. 9

Syllabus

<p>1. A verdict should be regarded from the standpoint of the jury’s intention, and when this can be ascertained, if consistent 'with legal principles, such effect should be given to the findings, as will really conform to their intention. If a verdict is not sufficiently certain to clearly show what the jury intended, it will be fatally defective.</p> <p>2. The verdict of the jury was in these words: “We the jury find the defendant, Mamie Bunch, guilty of assault with attempt to murder in the second degree, so say we all;” held; that the word attempt carries with it the idea of intent in this verdict, and that the verdict is not fatally defective.</p>