Duke v. State

Plaintiff in error, Ann Duke, was convicted in the Circuit Corut of Lee County, Florida, as an accessory before the fact for criminal trespass by cutting and carrying away pine and cypress timber .of the value of $500.00 from the South Half of South East Quarter of Section 8, Tp. 46, South, Range 25 East, located in Lee County, Florida, and property of Peninsula Realty Investment* Company. Several colored men working for Ann Duke in cutting and removing the timber were likewise informed against. On February 2, 1938, she was adjudged guilty and sentenced to pay a fine and from this judgment of…