Finch v. Mayo

This is an original proceeding in habeas corpus.

The record shows that petitioner was tried and by a jury-found guilty on the first count of an information charging the offense of breaking and entering a dwelling house with intent to commit a felony.

The record further shows that the court imposed sentence in the following language:

“It is the judgment of the court and the sentence of the law that you Frank Finch be taken by the Sheriff, or his lawful deputy, to the State’s prison of the State of Florida and delivered to the principal keeper thereof, and there to be confined in said State’s'…