Hawthorne v. State

Citations

• 72 Fla. 524
• 73 So. 590

Syllabus

<p>1. Where there is substantial legal evidence to support a verdict and nothing in the record shows that the jury were not governed by the evidence in making their finding, the verdict will not be disturbed as being contrary to the evidence.</p> <p>2. The proper practice is to move to strike irrelevant testimony which is given in answer to'a proper question.</p> <p>3. It is not error for the trial court to refuse requested instructions which are substantially covered by charges which the court had given.</p> <p>4. An instruction given by the court which embraces a correct proposition of law applicable to the evidence will not be rendered harmful because the court subjoins a correct reason which underlies the principle of law embodied in the instruction.</p>