Sawyer v. State of Florida

Plaintiff in error was convicted in the criminal court of record of Hillsborough County, upon an information running in the name of and filed and sworn to by the "assistant solicitor for the county of Hillsborough, prosecuting for the State of Florida, in said county,” of the offense of breaking and entering a store building, and sentenced to a term of three years and six months in the State Prison; to which judgment writ of error was sued out.

The first assignment of error is addressed both to the refusal to grant the motion for continuance and the motion for a severance. The motion for…