Case ID: fla_76/html/0234-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Whitfield, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

George E. Antone and Jasper Antone, Plaintiffs in Error, v. The State of Florida, Defendant in Error.
    
    Opinion Filed August 10, 1918.
    Where the evidence is legally sufficient to sustain a conviction of one defendant, hut is not sufficient to sustain the conviction of another defendant, as to whom no harmful errors appear, and the judgment of conviction is severable, the judgment will be reversed as to the first mentioned, and affirmed as to the second mentioned defendant.
    Writ of Error to Court of Record for Escambia County; C. M. Jones, Judge.
    
      Affirmed in part; reversed in part.
    
      R. P. Reese, for Plaintiffs in Error;
    
      Yam G. Swearingen, Attorney General, and G. O. A.n-(k'eias, Assistant, for the State.
   Whitfield, J.

The information in one count charges G. E. Antone, Jasper Antone and Dave Goldsby with the larceny of one calf, the property of G. J. Morgan; in the second count with the larceny of one yearling calf of the property of Ira Howell; and in the third count with receiving stolen property, etc. G. E. Antone and Jasper Antone were found guilty under the first and second counts, and Dave Goldsby was found not guilty by the verdict. As a result of this verdict all were acquitted under the third count.

The judgment of the court imposed imprisonment on George E. Antone and Jasper Antone under the first count, and on Jasper Antone alone under the second count. Both took a writ of error.

The points of procedure properly presented for determination have been considered and the conclusion as to them is that if errors they were harmless under the circumstances of this case.

The evidence is regarded as being legally insufficient to sustain the verdict as to George E. Antone, but it is sufficient to sustain the conviction as to Jasper Antone. As the judgment is severable it is reversed as to George E. Antone and affirmed as to Jasper Antone.

It is so ordered.

Browne, O. J., and Taylor, Ellis and West, J. J,, concur.