West v. State

CHAPMAN, J.:

The appellant, E. W. West, was informed against jointly with two others, and a severance granted, and he was tried and convicted of the crime of perjury by a jury of Jackson County, Florida, and by the trial court sentenced to serve a period of three years in the State Prison at hard labor. He has perfected an appeal therefrom to this Court.

The trial court excluded from the operation of the rule that all the witnesses remain outside of the hearing of the trial of the case during the progress of the trial, an attorney, two deputies and the county judge and permitted or allowed them…