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Brazier v. State of Florida

Supreme Court of Florida, Division B
May 10, 1928
116 So. 858 (Fla. 1928)

Opinion

Opinion Filed May 10, 1928.

A Writ of Error to the Criminal Court of Record for Dade County; Tom Norfleet, Judge.

Reversed.

Joseph Weinstraub and Ralph M. Cooper, Attorneys for Plaintiff in Error;

Fred H. Davis, Attorney General, and Roy Campbell, Assistant, Attorneys for Defendant in Error.


In this case the plaintiff in error was convicted with two others, the other two being convicted of breaking and entering a building with intent to commit a felony, while the plaintiff in error was convicted on the second count of the information which charged that he and the two others did receive and aid in the concealment of certain property of the value of more than $50.00 which had been theretofore stolen, and which they then and there knew to have been stolen. The evidence against the plaintiff in error here offered to support the charge upon which he was convicted, we think, is not as strong as it was in the case against the defendant Knowles, in Knowles v. State, 86 Fla. 270, 97 So. 616.

There is not a word of evidence in the record which in anywise establishes it as a fact that the plaintiff in error Brazier ever at any time had in his possession or control, or at any time concealed or aided in the concealment of any one of the articles named and described in the information.

The case should be reversed on authority of Knowles v. State, supra, and it is so ordered.

Reversed.

WHITFIELD, P. J., AND TERRELL, J., concur.

ELLIS, C. J., AND STRUM AND BROWN, J. J., concur in the opinion and judgment.


Summaries of

Brazier v. State of Florida

Supreme Court of Florida, Division B
May 10, 1928
116 So. 858 (Fla. 1928)
Case details for

Brazier v. State of Florida

Case Details

Full title:P. BRAZIER, Plaintiff in Error, v. THE STATE OF FLORIDA, Defendant in Error

Court:Supreme Court of Florida, Division B

Date published: May 10, 1928

Citations

116 So. 858 (Fla. 1928)
116 So. 858

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