Zarate v. Culbreath, (1942)
Court: Supreme Court of Florida
Number:
Visitors: 9
Judges: BUFORD, J.:
Attorneys: Hugh L. MacArthur, Neil C. McMullen and LeRoy Allen, for plaintiffs in error.
J. Tom Watson, Attorney General, Millard B. Conklin, Assistant Attorney General, Woodrow M. Melvin and Kenneth Ballinger, Special Asisstant Attorneys General, for defendant in error.
Filed: May 12, 1942
Latest Update: Mar. 02, 2020
Summary: The writ of error herein was taken to a judgment of the Circuit Court for Hillsborough County, remanding plaintiffs in error to custody of respondent on habeas corpus to test the legality of a judgment holding petitioners to be guilty of contempt of the court and sentencing each of them to thirty days imprisonment in the county jail, entered in the Criminal Court of Record of Hillsborough County. In effect the charge of contempt of court against the defendants is that in proceedings under the st
Summary: The writ of error herein was taken to a judgment of the Circuit Court for Hillsborough County, remanding plaintiffs in error to custody of respondent on habeas corpus to test the legality of a judgment holding petitioners to be guilty of contempt of the court and sentencing each of them to thirty days imprisonment in the county jail, entered in the Criminal Court of Record of Hillsborough County. In effect the charge of contempt of court against the defendants is that in proceedings under the sta..
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WHITFIELD, J., concurs in the reversal on the ground that the penalty imposed is excessive in this case.
BROWN, C. J., concurs.
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