STATE v. McGOWAN

No. 6261.

178 So.2d 738 (1965)

The STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Helen Eiland McGOWAN, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida. Second District.

October 5, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank Schaub, State Atty., Sarasota, for appellant.

David C. Holloman and Lewis E. Purvis, Arcadia, for appellee.


PER CURIAM.

The State appeals an order quashing an information charging the defendant Helen Eiland McGowan with manslaughter.

The information substantially follows a form of such an information set out in the opinion in Patterson v. State, 1937, 128 Fla. 539, 175 So. 730. Although the wording is awkward, redundant, and leaves much to be desired from a rhetorical and grammatical standpoint and is in the conjunctive, it has been approved by our courts.

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