Wiggins v. State

Citations

• 23 Fla. 180

Syllabus

<p>1. An indictment for murder in the first degree should charge a premeditated intent or desire to kill, as it alone distinguishes that crime from murder in the lesser degrees.</p> <p>2. The hill of exceptions should he full and sufficient, and this court will not examine the assigned errors, when the Judge certifies that it is “an imperfect hill of exceptions,” not showing all the evidence.</p> <p>3. Exceptions taken to the form and validity of the indictment which appears in the record will of course he considered.</p> <p>4. The verdict of the jury, that they find the defendant guilty upon arc indictment, not charging the murder to have been premeditated, will not warrant a sentence of death.</p>