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68 Fla. 436

Brookins v. State

Supreme Court of Florida

Decided December 1, 1914

Supreme Court of Florida · decided 1914-12-01

<p>, Writ of error to Criminal' Court of Record for Orange County; T. P. War low, Judge.</p>

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently November 1953

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Writ of error dismissed · Decided 1914-12-01

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Cockrell, J.

¶1Brookins was convicted in the Criminal Court of Record of assault and battery, a. misdemeanor, and takes writ of error from this court.

¶2This court has appellate jurisdiction, Const. Art. V, Sec. 5, “in cases of conviction of felony in the Criminal Courts,” while the Circuit Courts have final appellate jurisdiction “of all misdemeanors tried in the Criminal Courts.”

¶3It will then be seen that “conviction of a felony” is the basis for our jurisdiction over the Criminal Courts of Record. While the information upon which Brookins was tried, included felonious assault as well as those lesser ones, the verdict of the jury wiped out the felony charges and the conviction was for a misdemeanor.

¶4• It follows that the writ of error was improvidently sued out from this court, and that it should be dismissed.

¶5So ordered.

Shackleford, C. J., and Taylor, Hocker and Whitfield, J. J., concur.
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