Legal Opinion · Concurrence

Russo v. State

Supreme Court of Florida

Decided April 12, 1940Published

1ConcurrenceBrown, J.

(concurring). — As the two offenses charged in count one, and also in count three, are not only separate and distinct offenses, but are inconsistent and repugnant the one to the other, the holding in Irvin v. State, 51 Fla. 51, 41 So. 785, is not applicable here. The motion to quash these two counts should therefore, in my opinion, have been granted. It is elementary that two separate and inconsistent offenses cannot be combined in one count of an information or indictment. To do so would conflict with Sections 11 and 12 of the Declaration of Rights contained in our Constitution. I might add…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Lamps v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1906

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