Wells v. State

Citations

• 75 Fla. 229
• 77 So. 879

Syllabus

<p>1. A defendant in a criminal ease is not entitled as of right to (an instruction to the jury to return a verdict bf not guilty-on the ground that the evidence would not support a verdict of guilty, the statute regulating directed verdicts being confined to .civil cases.</p> <p>2. The testimony of a witness, not bn trial, is not inadmissible on the ground that it is a eonfessibn obtained by threats '</p> <p>3.. A remark of the State Attorney in his argument to the jury that “only one verdict of guilty could be given by six honest men,” is not ground for a reversal of la verdict of guilt as charged, particularly when the trial Court was not asked to d'o ay thing with reference to the remark 'except to note an exception taken to it.</p> <p>4. Where there is substantial evidence to support the verdict, and the evidence does not greatly preponderate agjainst the verdict .approved by the trial court, and it does not appear that 'the jury were not governed by the evidence, 'the judgment will not be reversed on the ground'that the verdict is without suppbrt in the evidence. •</p>