Case Name: STATE OF FLORIDA ex rel. FRED ARD v. HOWARD MAYES, as Sheriff of Escambia County, Florida
Court: Florida Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1943-06-15
Citations: 153 Fla. 187
Docket Number: 
Parties: STATE OF FLORIDA ex rel. FRED ARD v. HOWARD MAYES, as Sheriff of Escambia County, Florida.
Judges: BROWN, THOMAS and SEBRING, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Florida Reports
Volume: 153
Pages: 187–188

Head Matter:
STATE OF FLORIDA ex rel. FRED ARD v. HOWARD MAYES, as Sheriff of Escambia County, Florida.
13 So. (2nd) 913
June Term, 1943
June 15, 1943
Division B
Jones & Latham, for petitioner.
J. Tom Watson, Attorney General, and Woodrow M. Melvin, Assistant Attorney General, for respondent.

Opinion:
BUFORD, C. J.:
This is an original proceeding in habeas corpus.
The: record shows that petitioner is held under a judgment entered' on a plea of guilty to an information charging in all material respects in the language used in the information considered by us in the case of A. C. Brown v. State, in which case opinion and judgment was entered and filed here on May 4, 1943.
On authority of the opinion and judgment in the Brown case supra, the- information in this case is held to charge no offense against the laws of the State of Florida.
Therefore, it is ordered and adjudged that petitioner be discharged from custody.
BROWN, THOMAS and SEBRING, JJ., concur.