Case Name: Starke Mathis, Plaintiff in Error, v. State of Florida, Defendant in Error
Court: Florida Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1912-01
Citations: 63 Fla. 23
Docket Number: 
Parties: Starke Mathis, Plaintiff in Error, v. State of Florida, Defendant in Error.
Judges: Whitfield, C. J., and Taylor, Shackleford, Cockrell and Hocker, J. J., concur-. ........
Reporter: Florida Reports
Volume: 63
Pages: 23–24

Head Matter:
Starke Mathis, Plaintiff in Error, v. State of Florida, Defendant in Error.
In a prosecution for assaulting a female child under ten years of age with intent to carnally know and ab.use her, where the evidence of guilt is direct and positive, and is ample to sustain a conviction, the judgment will not be reversed on the ground that the evidence does not support the verdict.
Writ of error to the Circuit Court for Jackson County.
The facts in the case are stated in the opinion of the court.
Smith & D'avis for Plaintiff in Error;
Parh Trammell, Attorney General, and G. O. Andreios for the State.

Opinion:
Per Curiam
— The plaintiff in error was convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary for two years on a charge that he did "unlawfully and feloniously make an assault in and upon one P.--a female child under the age of ten years, with intent to carnally know and abuse the said female child," the particulars being alleged. On writ of error it is contended that the evidence does not support the verdict. .
Unlike the case of Williams v. State, 20 Fla. 391, the evidence of guilt in this case is- cMrect and positive. The evidence is ample to sustain the verdict, and no errors of law appearing the judgment is affirmed.
Whitfield, C. J., and Taylor, Shackleford, Cockrell and Hocker, J. J., concur-. .