Wooldridge v. State
Supreme Court of Florida
This case was decided by Division B. Writ of Error to the Circuit Court for Jackson County. STATEMENT. At the spring term, 1901, of the Circuit Court of Jackson county the grand jury found an indictment against the plaintiff in error, Andrew J. Wooldridge, hereinafter called the defendant, in the following words, viz: “The grand jurors of the State of Florida, duly empanelled and sworn to enquire and true presentment make for the body of said county of Jackson for the spring…
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This case was decided by Division B. Writ of Error to the Circuit Court for Jackson County. STATEMENT. At the spring term, 1901, of the Circuit Court of Jackson county the grand jury found an indictment against the plaintiff in error, Andrew J. Wooldridge, hereinafter called the defendant, in the following words, viz: “The grand jurors of the State of Florida, duly empanelled and sworn to enquire and true presentment make for the body of said county of Jackson for the spring term of said court, A. D, 1901, upon their oaths do present that one Andrew J. Wooldridge, late of the county of…
1Opinion of the CourtHocker, J.
(after stating the facts. J
Of the fifty-six assignments of error, nine are abandoned in the brief of plaintiff in error. To give each one of them an extended consideration would swell this opinion to a burdensome length.
The first assignment of error is based on the ruling of the trial judge denying the motion to quash the indictment, and the .contention in the brief of plaintiff in error is, (a) that the board of public instruction of Jackson county is by statute (sections 236, 237, Rev. Stats. of 1892) a corporation with a certain name, and authorized to act under and in its corporate name,…
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