Case ID: fla_80/html/0717-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "West, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Jim Dykes, Plaintiff in Error, v. State of Florida ex rel. Nora Spivey, Defendant in Error.
    
    Opinion Filed November 22, 1920.
    Petition for Rehearing Denied January 27, 1921.
    Where there is competent evidence sufficient to support the verdict and no material or harmful errors of law appear, the judgment will not be reversed', because of conflicts in the evidence.
    A Writ of Error to the Circuit Court for Jackson County ; C. L. Wilson, Judge.
    Affirmed.
    
      John H. Garter, for Plaintiff in Error;
    
      W. E. B. Smith, for Defendant in Error.
   West, J.

In a bastardy proceeding the verdict was in favor of the plaintiff. Judgment thereupon was entered against the defendant as.,provided by statute. Writ of error was taken and the case is here for consideration °by this court.

There are two assignments of error. Under the first assignment it is urged that the certificate of the County Judge transmitting the cause to the Circuit Court was defective and ineffectual for that purpose for various reasons, and under the second assignment the contention is that there was error in denying defendant’s motion for a new trial on the ground that the verdict is not supported by the evidence and is contrary to law.

There was no error in either of the orders complained of and neither of the assignments is- well taken. The certificate transmitting the cause to the Circuit Court is in substantial compliance with the statute. The sufficiency of the complaint is not questioned. In the Circuit Court the issue was made by a plea of not guilty to the complaint. There is ample evidence to support the verdict against the defendant.

The judgment will be affirmed.

Browne, C. J., and Taylor, Whitfield and Ellis, J. J., concur.