Ex Parte Young Ferris

A purported judgment of the Criminal Court of Record of Hillsborough County, relied upon as the basis for the petitioner’s' detention as a prisoner in the State Prison, reads as follows:

“Comes now the defendants Young Ferris' and Joe AVhiting with their Counsel, W. K. Zewadski, Jr., and presented and argued to the Court a motion for a new trial for the crime of which they were and stand convicted and the Court being fully advised in the premises, denied said motion and pronounced sentence on the defendants as follows':

“It is the judgment of the Court and the sentence of the law that you Young…