Vaughn v. State

Citations

• 52 Fla. 122

Syllabus

<p>CRIMINAL LAW — EVIDENCE—ANIMUS OF WITNESB — REASONABLE DOUBT.</p> <p>1. It is error to refuse to permit the defendant on the cross-examination of a State witness to interrogate such witness as to whether he had made threats of doing violence to the defendant. Great latitude is allowed in the cross-examination of a witness that tends to expose the animus of such witness.</p> <p>2. It is error to charge the jury that .a reasonable douht is “a doubt which would satisfy a reasonable man.”</p>