Brown v. State

Plaintiffs in error were indicted and convicted in the Circuit Court of Collier County upon an indictment which charged them with larceny of a cow, the property of one Lovie Lopez. From a sentence of two years imprisonment in State Prison writ of error has been taken to this Court.

Defendants below were indicted on October 2, 1933, and required to go to trial on the afternoon of October 3, 1933. The following minute entry is found in the transcript:

“The defendants in the cas'e of State of Florida v. Sam Hamilton, Boss Brown, represented by counsel, and Mack Beth Johnson being present in court,…