Boles v. State

TERRELL, J.:

J. C. Boles was tried and convicted on an information charging that he did make a lewd and lascivious assault on a child twelve years of age. He was sentenced to serve two and one-half years in the state penitentiary at hard labor and prosecuted this appeal from that judgment.

The information was exhibited under Section 800.04, Florida Statutes, 1941, which is as follows:

“Any person who shall handle, fondle or make an assault upon any child under the age of fourteen years in a lewd, lascivious or indecent maner, or who shall knowingly commit any lewd or lascivious act in the…