Zapf v. State

Liddon, J.:

The plaintiff in error was indicted and convicted of the crime of keeping a gambling house. Numerous errors are assigned, but a vital one occurring at the beginning of the trial, those subsequently appearing-are not open for discussion. The only entry in the record as to the calling of a jury in the case is as follows: “The State of Florida vs. George Zapf, indicted for keeping a gambling house. The following jury were impaneled to try this cause” (names of jurors here follow). The record is fatally defective in not showing that the jury were sworn. There is such a recital in the…