Savage v. State

Citations

• 18 Fla. 970

Syllabus

<p>1. Fractions of days are not regarded in law, except when justice requires a careful examination as to the precise time of day at which an act was performed, in order to do right as between parties.</p> <p>2. Where time is to be computed from a particular day, or when an act is to be performed within a specified period, as from or after a day named, the rule is to exclude the first day designated, and to include the last day of the specified period.</p> <p>3. An indictment found on the thirteenth day of December, 1880, for ' an offence alleged to have been committed on the thirteenth day of December, 1878, is good, the offence not being barred by the statute of limitations.</p> <p>■4. It is not necessary that the court should charge the jury in the precise language adoi>ted by the counsel for the defendant in his request, but it is sufficient if it charge the propositions of law so submitted in equivalent language of its own adoption.</p>