AMOS JACKSON, APPELLANT,
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE
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The appellate court affirmed a second-degree murder conviction, finding no fatal error in the trial court's jury instructions on proximate cause, despite the appellant's sole argument concerning this issue.
No, the trial court did not commit fatal error in its jury instructions on proximate cause.
“The sufficiency of the evidence was not raised, nor argued, in the brief of the appellant.”
This quote highlights that the appeal was limited to the jury instructions, not the evidence presented.
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Join FLexlaw to unlock all legal intelligenceAmos Jackson was tried for first-degree murder, and the jury found him guilty of second-degree murder. The trial court sentenced him to thirty years i…
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The defendant, Amos Jackson, was tried for the crime of first degree murder. The jury found him guilty of murder in the second degree and the court sentenced him to be confined in the state prison at hard labor for a period of thirty years.
The sufficiency of the evidence was not raised, nor argued, in the brief of the appellant. The sole question involved concerned the correctness of the trial court’s instruction on proximate cause. At the close of the testimony, the state requested 24 instructions and the defendant requested 17 instructions.
The appellant questions the giving of the state’s requested instruction #9, and the refusal of the court to give the defendant’s requested instruction #16.
We have read the testimony and instructions of the court and find no fatal error therein.
The court below is affirmed.
ALLEN, C. J., and SHANNON and LILES, JJ., concur.
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