Barber v. State

Error to the Circuit Court of Duval County. This was an indictment against Archibald Barber for an assault and battery. It appears from the record, that upon the trial of this case in the Circuit Court, the State having closed, and the prisoner having offered no evidence, prisoner’s counsel contended in his argument to the jury, that the prosecution had not proved the time when the offence charged in the indictment was committed, and ashed the Court to charge the jury that in such case the prisoner was entitled to a verdict. The solicitor for the State insisted that the time had been proved…