Citation Numbers: 86 Fla. 183
Judges: Browne, Ellis, Taylor, Terrell, West, Whitfield
Filed Date: 7/18/1923
Status: Precedential
Modified Date: 9/22/2021
In a prosecution for murder alleged to have been committed from a premeditated design to effect -the death of the person killed, the court gave the statutory- definition of murder in the first degree “when perpetrated from a premeditated design to effect the death of the person killed,” and charged the jury that “premeditation is defined as meaning intent before -the act, but not necessarily an intent existing any extended time before the act.. Premeditated design .to kill means an intent to kill; design means intent, and both words imply premedi
Reversed for a new trial.