Rambo v. Mayo

DREW, Justice.

' Petitioner, Earnest Rambo, an initiate of the Florida State Prison, submitted his request for relief by letter in which he questioned the ' legality of his conviction ' and sentence to life imprisonment on April 21, 1943, under Section 775.10, Florida Statutes, 1941, F.S.A., which statute is commonly known as the' “Habitual Criminal Statute.”

The indictment upon which Rambo was convicted alleges merely that “Earnest Rambo * * * has four times been convicted of felonies, to-wit: Breaking and entering, in Palm Beach County, State of Florida.” We held in Joyner v. State, 158 Fla.…