NORWOOD v. MAYO


74 So.2d 370 (1954)

NORWOOD v. MAYO, State Prison Custodian.

Supreme Court of Florida. Division B.

Rehearing Denied September 21, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J.C. Adkins, Jr., Gainesville, for petitioner.

Richard W. Ervin, Atty. Gen., and Reeves Bowen, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.


HOBSON, Justice.

This is a case of original jurisdiction, upon petition for habeas corpus filed by Burl Norwood. We have issued the writ, to which a return has now been filed by respondent.

From the facts made out by the petition and return, Norwood was committed to respondent's custody on October 9, 1924, to serve a five year sentence for the crime of breaking and entering with intent to commit a misdemeanor, imposed upon him by the Circuit Court of Santa...

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