Ziegler v. State of Florida

Plaintiff in error was tried and convicted in the Criminal Court of Record for Dade County on an information charging- embezzlement, Sec. 5146, Rev. Gen. Stats, of Fla., 1920. Motion for new trial was denied and a sentence of three years in the State penitentiary was imposed. Writ of error was taken to the judgment.

Error is first predicated on the denial of a motion for continuance. From the showing in the record we do not think the defendant was given a reasonable time to prepare his defense. The information with bill of particulars was filed and the defendant forced to trial all the same…