Chapman v. Forrest Lake

The writ of error herein was allowed and taken under the statute to a final order made in habeas' corpus proceedings before .the Circuit Judge in Union County in which county the State Prison is located. The court held the sentence of the petitioner to imprisonment in the State Prison to be void, and ordered that the petitioner “be taken before the Circuit Court in due course for a proper .sentence.”

The petitioner was convicted in the' Circuit Court for Seminole County and sentenced to “be confined at hard labor in the State Prison of the State of Florida, for and during the period of three…