Knight v. State

Citations

• 60 Fla. 19

Syllabus

<p>1. A conviction may be had upon the uncorroborated testimony of an accomplice where it satisfies the jury of the defendant’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.</p> <p>2. The credibility and weight of testimony are for the determination of the jury in a criminal prosecution.</p> <p>3. Where there is evidence to support a verdict and there is nothing in the record to indicate that the jury were not governed by the evidence at the trial, the verdict will not be set aside as being against the evidence.</p> <p>4. In a prosecution for wilfully and maliciously burning a dwelling house where the evidence shows the building burned was used as a dwelling house as alleged, it is not error to confine the issues to the charge made under the statute.</p> <p>5. The following charge is not erroneous when there is evidence upon which it may be predicated: “The defense of an alibi has . been offered which means that the defendant was not there when the house’ was set fire to and consequently did not do it. If from the evidence in the case you have a reasonable doubt as to the truth of the alibi, that is to say, whether the defendant was there or not, then you should give him the benefit of such reasonable doubt and find him not guilty.”</p> <p>O. It is not error to merely fail to define reasonable doubt to the jury when there is no request for it.</p>