Alvarez v. State
Supreme Court of Florida
This case wag decided by Division B. Writ of Error to the Circuit Court for Bradford County. STATEMENT. The plaintiff in error, Edward Alvarez, was convicted at the Spring term, 1899, of the Circuit Court for Bradford county of the crime of murder in the second degree and sentenced to life imprisonment in the penitentiary, and upon such sentence was so imprisoned until the 6th day of April, A. D. 1904, when he was released from custody upon the following conditional pardon…
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This case wag decided by Division B. Writ of Error to the Circuit Court for Bradford County. STATEMENT. The plaintiff in error, Edward Alvarez, was convicted at the Spring term, 1899, of the Circuit Court for Bradford county of the crime of murder in the second degree and sentenced to life imprisonment in the penitentiary, and upon such sentence was so imprisoned until the 6th day of April, A. D. 1904, when he was released from custody upon the following conditional pardon granted to him by the State Board of Pardons: “Whereas, at a meeting this day held at the Capitol at the City of…
1Opinion of the Court
Taylor, J.,
(after stating the facts.) This cause being, one of first impression in this court, and involving as it does the law governing the effect of a conditional pardon and its acceptance by the convict, and of a violation of its conditions, and the proper procedure upon a violation “thereof, we have given it exhaustive consideration, and find the law on the subject so concisely and accurately stated at page 595 et seq. of Vol. 24 Am. & Eng. Ency. of Law (2nd ed.) that we cannot do better than to quote what is there said as being the law: “It is settled law that, where a criminal accepts…
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