Parrish v. State

Plaintiff in error was convicted of the offense of knowingly assisting in the escape from lawful custody of one Camp, the latter a duly committed prisoner of the State of Florida, as defined and prohibited by Section 5398, Revised General Statutes of Florida, 1920, and to the judgment of conviction takes a writ of error.

Soon after the introduction of evidence had been begun at the trial, the State undertook to prove the lawful detention of the prisoner Camp by the oral testimony of the Superintendent of the State Prison Farm. The trial court sustained the defendant’s objection to the…