STATE v. BENTLEY


81 So.2d 750 (1955)

STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. James BENTLEY and Mathew Rivers, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Florida. Division B.

July 27, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard W. Ervin, Atty. Gen., and Bart L. Cohen, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellant.

Daniel F. Hubsch, Jacksonville, for appellees.


THORNAL, Justice.

The State appeals from an order of the Judge of the Criminal Court of Record for Duval County granting a motion to quash an information charging the appellees, Bentley and Rivers, with the larceny of a bull. The motion was grounded on a claim of former jeopardy.

On March 1, 1955, an information was filed against the two appellees charging them with the larceny on October 17, 1954, of a cow, the property of one Shep Brunson. At the trial of...

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