Houston v. State

Citations

• 50 Fla. 90

Syllabus

<p>1. The ruling of a trial court denying a motion to quash an indictment must be embraced in the record proper in order that this court may consider an assignment of error based thereon.</p> <p>2. When a grand jury is informed of the instrumentalities used in effecting a homicide, and of the manner of the death, these should be set forth in the indictment; but when the grand jury is satisfied that an unlawful homicide has been committed, and the evidence does not satisfactorily show how it was accomplished, the form of the indictment used in this case is approved.</p> <p>3. Where circumstantial evidence points strongly to the defendant as the guilty agent in causing the death of a party, who is clearly shown to have met a violent death, and is without material conflict, this court canniot say that the jury were not warranted in concluding that the defendant was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.</p>