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JUDGES OF POLK COUNTY COURT v. ERNST

No. 92-01124.

615 So.2d 276 (1993)

JUDGES OF the POLK COUNTY COURT, by Ronald A. HERRING, Administrative Judge, and Olin W. Shinholser, Judge of the Highlands County Court, Appellants, v. Gustav ERNST, et al., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Rehearing Denied April 2, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen. and Louis F. Hubener, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, for appellants.

Robert L. Doyel, Bartow, Thomas McDonald, Lakeland, James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Mel McKinley, Asst. Public Defender, Bartow, for appellees.

BLUE, Judge.

This is an appeal of an order granting a petition for writ of prohibition. The petition questioned the assignment of the county judge of Highlands County to hear County Court criminal cases in Polk County.1 We disagree with the trial court's determination this was a de facto permanent assignment. Accordingly, we reverse.

Article V, section 2 of the Florida Constitution provides the chief justice the power to...

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