Williams v. State
Supreme Court of Florida
Writ of error to the Circuit Court for Alachua county, Judge Vann of the Third Circuit presiding. The facts .of the case except the testimony are stated in the opinion. The testimony as it appears in the bill of exceptions is as follows: The State, to maintain the issues on its part, produced as a witness one Mrs. Laura Britt, who being sworn testified as follows: The prisoner came to my house and said he had not seen us for a long- time, and thought he would stop awhile.
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Writ of error to the Circuit Court for Alachua county, Judge Vann of the Third Circuit presiding. The facts .of the case except the testimony are stated in the opinion. The testimony as it appears in the bill of exceptions is as follows: The State, to maintain the issues on its part, produced as a witness one Mrs. Laura Britt, who being sworn testified as follows: The prisoner came to my house and said he had not seen us for a long- time, and thought he would stop awhile. My husband was not at home; I was alone with my children and a little colored boy named Thomas; I don’t remember the…
1Opinion of the Court
Ms. Justice YanYalkenburgh
delivered the opinion of the court:
At the January Term of the Circuit Court, held in and for the county of Alachua, in the month of January, A. D. 1883, the plaintiff in error, Bill Williams, was indicted. Such indictment charged that the plaintiff in error, “ on the ninth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two, with force and arms, in the county of Alachua aforesaid, in and upon one A. B., a female, feloniously and wilfully did make an assault with inteu ther, the said A. B., then and there feloniously to ravish,” &e.
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