Case ID: fla_82/html/0096-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

John Benton, Plaintiff in Error, v. The State of Florida, Defendant in Error.
    
    Decision Filed July 5, 1921.
    A Writ of Error to the Circuit Court for Holmes County; D. J. Jones, Judge.
    
      W. T. Bloodworth, for Plaintiff in Error;
    
      
      Rivers Buford, Attorney General, and Marvin C. MclntosK, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.
   Per Curiam.

Jolin Benton took writ of error to a judgment convicting him of the statutory offense of deserting his wife and withholding from her the means of support. The testimony is of such a nature that the court is of the opinion that justice will be subserved by granting a new trial.

Reversed.

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