Lawton v. State

CHAPMAN, J.:

The appellant, Lawrence Lawton, was tried in the Criminal Court of Record of Orange County, Florida, on four counts of an information charging embezzlement. He was convicted by a jury on the third count and by the trial court sentenced to serve a period of two years in the state prison, and has perfected an appeal therefrom to this Court.

The factual background of the controversy is viz.: Anton Doyscher, in his early eighties, and his wife, Rosa Doyscher, in her late sixties, each of foreign birth, owned an orange grove in the vicinity of Orlando. The two owned the grove, but the…