Saucer v. State
Saucer v. State
Opinion of the Court
On writ of certiorari issued from this court, it appears that J. M. Saucer was put upon trial in the County Judge’s Court of Seminole County upon a charge that in Seminole County, Florida, on March 25, 1921, he had in his possession intoxicating liquors, contrary to the statute; that he' filed a plea of autre fois acquit in which it is averred that he had been tried in the Circuit Court upon an indictment charging that he on March 25, 1921, in Seminole County did unlawfully have in his
In view of the terms of the - statute under which the second offense indictment was found, on which the accused was acquitted, the indictment was not fatally defective; and as both the charges of unlawful possession were on March 25, 1921, with nothing to indicate different offenses, the order striking the plea of autre fois acquit was a departure from the essential requirements of the law and obviously was materially harmful to the accused, for which the judgment of conviction affirmed by the Circuit Court, is quashed. It is so ordered.
Reference
- Full Case Name
- J. M. Saucer v. The State of Florida
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- Syllabus
- Where in stating a statutory second offense, it is charged that the defendant had unlawful possesion of intoxicating liquors on a named day and the defendant is acquitted, and on a charge subsequently 'made of the unlawful possession of intoxicating liquors on the same day named in the previous charge, where a plea of autre fois acquit is stricken, and the defendant is convicted, it is such a departure .from the essential requirements of the law resulting in material injury to the defendant that justifies relief on certiorari.