State v. Jackson

The State seeks review of an order dismissing an information. The appellee was charged with careless driving, by leaving the roadway resulting in personal injuries, in the Metropolitan Court of Dade County and was acquitted. He was subsequently informed against in the Criminal Court of Record in and for Dade County for a violation of § 317.071, Fla.Stat., F.S.A., leaving the scene of an accident resulting in injury. Upon motion, the trial court dismissed the criminal information, indicating in his order that the subsequent prosecution constituted a second prosecution which was barred by…