Coleman v. State Ex Rel. Wilson

Writ of error brings for review judgment discharging petitioner in habeas corpus proceedings.

The record shows that petitioner pleaded guilty to a charge in an information as follows:

“Tom Wilson of the County of Dade and State of Florida, on the 13th day of December in the year of our Lord, One Thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight, in the county and State aforesaid, did then and there unlawfully and feloniously have in his possession within the State of Florida a beverage containing more than one per cent (1 °/o) of alcohol. by weight, to-wit: a quantity of moonshine whiskey, a better and…