Legal Opinion

Drayton v. State

Supreme Court of Florida

Decided August 1, 1919PublishedCited by 8 opinions

A Writ of Error to tbe Circuit Court for Manatee County; O. K. Reaves, Judge.

1Opinion of the CourtWest, J.

— Plaintiff in error was indicted in the Circuit Court of Manatee County upon a charge of obtaining' property by false personation of another. Upon trial he was found guilty as charged and sentenced to serve a term of two and one-half years at hard labor in the State’s prison. Thereupon he took writ of error from this court. The plaintiff in error will be referred to in this opinion as the defendant.

Several questions are raised by assignments of error, but three of them only are argued in the brief of counsel on behalf of defendant.

The first question presented is whether the trial court erred…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Holland v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1897
  2. Duncan v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1892
  3. Hughes v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1911
  4. Ryan v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1910
  5. Menefee v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1910

3Cited by8 opinions

  1. Yarbrough v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1920
  2. Lamb v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1925
  3. Tucker v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1923
  4. Brantley v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1922
  5. Sanford v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1925

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