Ex parte Pitts
Supreme Court of Florida
BRIEF OF PETITIONER’S ATTORNEY. The court in ascertaining the intention of the Legislature in enacting a law which is attacked as being-illegal and unconstitutional should look to contemporaneous legislation enacted by the same body, on the-same subject, either before the passage of said law, or afterwards. See Sutherland on Statutory Construction, sec. 288; Bishop Sta.
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BRIEF OF PETITIONER’S ATTORNEY. The court in ascertaining the intention of the Legislature in enacting a law which is attacked as being-illegal and unconstitutional should look to contemporaneous legislation enacted by the same body, on the-same subject, either before the passage of said law, or afterwards. See Sutherland on Statutory Construction, sec. 288; Bishop Sta. Crimes, sec. 82, 15 Fla., pp. 355. Art. XIX of the Con. of the State of Fla. authorizes-the county commissioners of any county in the State, upon the written application of one-fourth of the registered voters of such county,…
1Opinion of the Court
Mabry, C. J.:
In Ms petition for habeas corpus, Henry Pitts alleges that he is unlawfully detained in custody by the sheriff of Polk county under a capias issued out of the county court of said county on an information filed in said court on the 4th day of December, 1894, a copy of the information being attached as an exhibit to the petition. The information was filed in the county court of the county of Polk on the 4th day of December, 1894, by the prosecuting attorney for said county against the petitioner, and it is therein alleged that on the 5th day of April of that year an election was…
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