Case Name: Gilbert Brookins, Plaintiff in Error, v. The State of Florida, Defendant in Error
Court: Florida Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1914-12-01
Citations: 68 Fla. 436
Docket Number: 
Parties: Gilbert Brookins, Plaintiff in Error, v. The State of Florida, Defendant in Error.
Judges: Shackleford, C. J., and Taylor, Hocker and Whitfield, J. J., concur.
Reporter: Florida Reports
Volume: 68
Pages: 436–437

Head Matter:
Gilbert Brookins, Plaintiff in Error, v. The State of Florida, Defendant in Error.
Opinion Filed December 1, 1914.
The Circuit Court, not the Supreme Court, has appellate • jurisdiction over conviction of misdemeanors in the Criminal Courts of Record.
, Writ of error to Criminal' Court of Record for Orange County; T. P. War low, Judge.
Writ of error dismissed.
Jones & Jones, for Plaintiff in Error;
T. F. West, Attorney General, and C. O. Andrews, Assistant, for the State.

Opinion:
Cockrell, J.
Brookins was convicted in the Criminal Court of Record of assault and battery, a. misdemeanor, and takes writ of error from this court.
This court has appellate jurisdiction, Const. Art. V, Sec. 5, "in cases of conviction of felony in the Criminal Courts," while the Circuit Courts have final appellate jurisdiction "of all misdemeanors tried in the Criminal Courts."
It will then be seen that "conviction of a felony" is the basis for our jurisdiction over the Criminal Courts of Record. While the information upon which Brookins was tried, included felonious assault as well as those lesser ones, the verdict of the jury wiped out the felony charges and the conviction was for a misdemeanor.
• It follows that the writ of error was improvidently sued out from this court, and that it should be dismissed.
So ordered.
Shackleford, C. J., and Taylor, Hocker and Whitfield, J. J., concur.