Johnson v. State

Citations

• 80 Fla. 61
• 85 So. 155

Syllabus

<p>1. It: is not error to p'erniit' a non-expért witness to testify as to- the nature of pistolshot wounds in the bddy of a person recently deceased and to state that the wounds, being “two big wounds” in the breast, were sufficient to cause the death of the person.</p> <p>2. The judgment should not be reversed or a new trial granted in any ease, civil or criminal, for étrors in rulings uptan the admission or reje'ctibn of evidence, or for errors'in giving or refusing charges, or for errors in any other matter of procedure or practice, unless it shall appear to the court from a consideration of the entire cause that such errors injuriously afCCct the' substaiitidl rights of the Comipláiñing party.- Nor should a judgment be revers’ed or a new trial granted on the ground that the verdict 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 ife Clearly Wfdrig, or that the jury were not governed by the evidence in making their finding.-</p>