Opinion
Opinion Filed April 11, 1939.
A writ of error from the Circuit Court for Lee County, W.T. Harrison, Judge.
W.D. Bell, for Plaintiff in Error;
George Couper Gibbs, Attorney General, Tyrus A. Norwood, and Thomas J. Ellis, Assistant Attorneys General, for Defendant in Error.
This is a companion case to that of Solon Driggers v. State of Florida.
The two defendants were indicted and tried jointly in both cases and each, upon being arraigned, interposed like pleas of autrefois acquit.
Therefore, the judgment is reversed on authority of the opinion and judgment in the Driggers case, supra.
So ordered.
Reversed.
TERRELL, C.J., and BUFORD and THOMAS, J.J., concur.
BROWN, J., concurs in opinion and judgment.
Justices WHITFIELD and CHAPMAN, not participating as authorized by Section 4687 Compiled General Laws of 1927 and Rule 21-A of the Rules of this Court.