Sullivan v. State
Sullivan v. State
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of. the court.
These defendants were tried upon an indictment found, for fraudulently altering the marks of an. animal, under Section 54, Chapter 4, of “ An act to provide for the punishment of crime and proceedings in criminal cases,” approved August 6th, 1868.
The first error assigned by the plaintiffs in error is, that there was no arraignment by the court of these defendants-before trial as contemplated by the law. The record presented to this court upon this point is as follows:
“Now on this day comes Alexander St. Clair Abrams,, who prosecutes the pleas of the State of Florida in this behalf, and J. W. Price and J. H. Allen, counsel for defendants, and the defendants being brought into court and arraigned pleaded not guilty, and thereupon comes a jury of good and lawful men, to wit: 1. W. A. Lovell; 2.. Newton Ennice; 3. W. R. Barnhart; 4. M. Gr. Campbell.; 5. M. J. Doyle; 6. John Ivey, who, being empanelled and sworn to try the issue between the State of Florida and the defendants according to the evidence, after hearing the evidence and the argument of the counsel, and having, received the charge of the court, rendered the following verdict, to wit: ‘ We the jury find the prisoners guilty.’ ”
There is sufficient in this record to identify the prisoners, to show that they were brought into court; that they were represented by counsel, plead to the indictment,.were tried by a jury and found guilty of the offences with which they were charged. The very question raised by this assignment of error has been fully considered and determined in this court in the case of Dixon vs. The State, 13 Fla,, 631.
The counsel for the defenants, after verdict, moved for new trial upon several grounds;, the first, being. “that.th®said defendants were illegally tried, having, been-tried andi
No exception to the introduction of any of the evidence ■which is set out in the bill of exceptions, or to any ruling of ithe court, seems to have been taken during the trial, and ‘•there is nothing appearing upon the face of the record to .suggest that any evidence was admitted except with the consent .®f the defendants. The third and fifth errors assigned are, that the court erred in its charge to the jury in two different and distinct portions thereof, but we do not find
The fourth, sixth, and eighth assignments of error have for their ground the failure of the court to charge the jury upon certain points in each of said numbered assignments separately mentioned. There is not in the record am request made upon the part of the defendants by their counsel to the court to instruct the jury upon any one of these several points. Such instructions should have been asked by the counsel if they were deemed essential at the time,.' or before the court charged the jury, and had the court then, refused, exceptions should then and there have been taken to enable counsel to avail themselves of the alleged errors upon review. The attention of the court should be called to the particular points upon which it is asked to instruct the jury, and this must be done before the jury shall have-left their jury box; if such request is not made until after the jury shall have retired to consider of their verdict, it is too late. 1 Bishop Crim. Pro., 980, and cases cited; 2-Phillips’ Ev., Cowen & Hill’s Notes, 1004.
The judgment must be affirmed.
Reference
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- Reed, Story and Samuel Sullivan, in Error v. The State of Florida, in Error
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- 1. The record showing that the defendants were brought into court, that they appeared by counsel, plead to the indictment, were tried and convicted, is sufficient evidence of a propel' arraignment. 2. When the bill of exceptions does not bring up all the evidence taken upon the trial of the cause, the court will infer that there was sufficient introduced to warrant the finding of the jury. 3. Exceptions to the charge of the court must be taken at the time the instructions t© the jury so complained of are given, and the evidence of that fact must appear in the bill of exceptions. 4. To enable a party to avail himself of the error in the court refusing to instruct the jury as requested, the attention of the court must be called to the particular points upon which such instruction is asked and that before the jury shall have retired to consider of their verdict.