Simon v. State
Supreme Court of Florida
At tbe June term, 1853, of the Circuit Court for Escambia County, the Grand Jury presented an indictment against Simon, the plaintiff in error, for burning a dwelling house belonging to Richard T. Maxwell.
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At tbe June term, 1853, of the Circuit Court for Escambia County, the Grand Jury presented an indictment against Simon, the plaintiff in error, for burning a dwelling house belonging to Richard T. Maxwell. The record, after stating that certain, persons, naming them, were on the tenth day of June chosen and sworn as Grand Jurors, proceeds to state that “ on another day, the fifteenth day of June, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, the Grand Jurors came into Court and presented the following bill of indictment, which said, indictment is in the following words and figures,…
1Opinion of the Court
SEMMES, J.:
The first error assigned, is, that there is nothing in the record to show that the Grand Jury found a true bill ofindictmentagainsttheplaintiffin error, and the case of Holton vs. the State, 2 Fla. R., 476, is relied upon as authority. We have carefnlly revised the decision in that case. It is certainly distinguishable from the one before us, and we certainly are not disposed to extend any further the principles of that decision. Immediately after the caption of the record, in this case, which contains all the essential requisites, follows this statement: “ And on another day, to…
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