Case ID: fla_42/html/0610-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

William Craft, Plaintiff in Error vs. The State of Florida Defendant in Error.
    1. Where a person convicted of a felony and sentenced to a term of imprisonment in the state prison and to pay the costs of prosecution, but against whom no fine is adjudged, sues out a writ of error to review such judgment, and upon proof made as provided by section 2977, Revised Statutes, the trial court makes an order that plaintiff in error be relieved from payment of all costs in the cause, such writ of error operates as a supersedeas to the execution of the judgment, upon plaintiff in error remaining in the custody of the sheriff of the court passing the sentence.
    2. Where it is made to appear to the Supreme 'Court that a person convicted of a felony and sentenced to a term of imprisonment in the state prison is undergoing execution of such sentence, notwithstanding the pendency in said court of a writ of error to review such judgment, and the performance of all things necessary to cause said writ of error to operate as a superseadeas upon such person remaining in the custody of the sheriff of the court passing the sentence as provided by section 2977, Revised Statutes, the Supreme Court is authorized to require and will require the Commissioner of Agriculture and the contractor for State convicts having such person in custody to deliver him to the sheriff of the court passing the sentence, to be held in the custody of such sheriff during the pendency of the writ of error or until released as provided .by law.
    Writ of Error to the Circuit Court for Baker ‘County.
    The fact© in the case are stated in the opinion of the •Court.
    
      ¿Leónidas E. Wade and B. D. Hires for Plaintiff in Error.
    
      The Attorney General, for Defendant in Error.
   Per Curiam :

In April of the present year, plaintiff in error was convicted of perjury in the Circuit Court of Baker county, and sentenced to confinement at hard labor in the State prison for the term of twenty years. From this sentence, he sued out this, writ of error.

Upon proof presented to the Circuit Court as provided by section 2977 Revised Statutes, that court made an order that plaintiff in error be relieved from the payment of all costs in the cause. The judgment does not impose a money fine, but simply imprisonment in the State prison.

It is made to appear to: us that, notwithstanding the order made by the Circuit Judge and the writ of error sued out, plaintiff in error is now undergoing execution of the sentence in the State prison, and that be: is now .employed at hard labor by one of the lessees of State convicts. We are moved to grant an order directing’ that he be redelivered to the sheriff of Baker county, to remain in his custody until the present writ of error is disposed of. The Attorney-Gen eral 'consents that we hear the motion at this time .

The motion must be granted. Under the order made by the Circuit Court, the writ of error operates as a supersedeas to the execution of the, judgment upon plaintiff in error remaining in the custody of the sheriff of the court passing the sentence. State v. Mitchell, 29 Fla. 302, 10 South. Rep. 746. We shall, therefore, enter an order requiring the Commissioner of Agriculture, and the contractor for State convicts having plaintiff in error in custody, to deliver plaintiff in error to the custody of thie sheriff of Baker county, to be by him held in custody during the pendency of this writ of error, or until released as provided by law.