Jenkins v. State

Citations

• 31 Fla. 196

Syllabus

<p>JUDICIAL DISCRETION IN CRIMINAL TRIALS—EXAMINATION OP JURORS ' ON VOIR DIRE—ACCOMPLICES AS WITNESSES.</p> <p>1. In all such matters as the granting of applications to pass the trial of causes when called for trial, or to temporarily postpone the trial thereof in order to give counsel time to prepare papers to be filed therein; or, during the trial, to have the testimony adduced with sufficient slowness so that it can be written down in extenso, a large discretion must of necessity be reposed in the trial judge, and an appellate court can not declare any given exercise of such discretion to be error, unless the record discloses a palpable abuse thereof.</p> <p>2. In testing the qualifications of jurors on the voir dire, it is not a proper field of inquiry to interrogate the proposed juror as to the comparative credence that he would or could give to the evidence of persons belonging to different races, who may or may not be witnesses in the cause.</p> <p>3. An accomplicelis [a competent witness against his confederates in the crime, and'a conviction, may be had upon his uncorroborated evidence, where it satisfies the jury beyond a reasonable doubt.</p>