Dixon v. State

Citations

• 79 Fla. 586
• 84 So. 541

Syllabus

<p>1. It is not error to refuse requested charges when they were sufficiently covered by charges given to fairly present the case to the jury on the different phases of the evidence as adduced under the issues.</p> <p>2. Conflicts in testimony are settled by the jury and may not be reviewed when there is ample evidence to support- the verdict and .harmful error is not made to appear.</p> <p>3. The judgment should not be reversed or a new trial granted in any case, civil or criminal, for errors in rulings upon the admission or rejection of evidence or for errors in giving or refusing charges, or for errors in any other matter of procedure 'qr practice, unless it shall appear to the court from a consideration of the entire cause that such errors injuriously affected the substantial rights of the complaining party; Nor should a judgment be reversed or a new trial granted on the ground that the verfiict is .not sustained, by the evidence, unless it appears that there was no substantial evidence to support the finding or that upon the whole evidence the verdict is clearly wrong or that the jury were not governed by the evidence in making their finding.'</p>