Case ID: fla_99/html/1324-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

T. R. Lee, Plaintiff in Error, v. State of Florida, Defendant in Error.
    
    En Banc.
    Decision filed June 6, 1930.
    
      W. P. Chavous, for Plaintiff in Error;
    
      Fred II. Davis, Attorney General and Boy Campbell, Assistant for the State.
   Per Curiam.

In this cause Mr. Chief Justice Terrell, Mr. Justice Whitfield and Mr. Justice Brown are of the opinion that the judgment of the Circuit Court should be affirmed, while Mr. Justice Ellis, Mr. Justice Strum and Mr. Justice Buford are of opinion that the said judgment should be'reversed. When it appears that the members of the Court are permanently and equally divided in opinion as to whether a judgment should be affirmed or reversed, and there is no prospect of an immediate change in the personnel of the Court, the judgment should be affirmed. Therefore, it is considered, ordered and adjudged that the judgment of the Circuit Court in this cause be and the same is hereby affirmed on the authority of State ex rel. Hampton v. McClung, 47 Fla. 224, 37 So. R. 51.

Terrell, C. J., and Whitfield, Ellis, Strum, Brown and Buford, J. J., concur.