Dedge v. State
Citations
- 68 Fla. 240
- 67 So. 43
Syllabus
<p>1. Previous jury service within the year is now a disqualification and not a privilege personal to the venireman.</p> <p>2. Trifling changes in physical conditions do not render photographs inadmissible..</p> <p>3. An accused, upon voluntarily becoming a witness, may be impeached by proper proof of contradictory statements previously made, not amounting to a confession of guilt, illegally obtained.</p> <p>4. If error be predicated upon the bill of exceptions, it must appear affirmatively and not by a forced inference.</p> <p>5. flie evidence warranting a verdict for murder in the first degree, a conviction of murder in the second degree will not be disturbed.</p>
How courts have described this case
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- rules regarding timing of objections and wording of requests should be applied with ―common sense‖ so as not to promote ―form over substance‖
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Judges: Cockrell, Field, Hocker, Shackleford, Taylor
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