Legal Opinion
Savage v. State
Supreme Court of Florida
Decided June 15, 1882PublishedCited by 4 opinions
"Writ of error to the Circuit Court for Volusia county. This case was decided at the January Term, 1882, on its merits as then submitted, and the decision is reported in 18 Fla., 970. Leave was granted at that term to file a petition for rehearing, and it was filed by Mr. John "W. Price, attorney for plaintiff in error, within the time allowed after the term. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice VanValkenburgh
"We have examined the petition for rehearing in this cause. The grounds, as stated in such petition, are, first, that subsequent to the trial, conviction and sentence of the plaintiff in error, and while the cause was pending in this court upon a writ of error, the law under which the indictment was found, upon which the trial was had, was repealed; second, that there is no formal final judgment against the plaintiff in error contained in the record, but only an entry upon the minutes that the sentence was pronounced by the court.
Neither of these points were made by the counsel for the…
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