Colson v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a prosecutor’s refusal to sign an information did not deprive the trial court of subject matter jurisdiction because “there was an information describing a felony which conferred subject matter jurisdiction on the circuit court”
• agreeing with Anderson, but distinguishing it where an information was actually filed but only had a \technical defect\, occasioned by lack of the prosecutor's signature
• “The validity of an information not signed by the state attorney may only be attacked upon a timely objection.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Lacey v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2002-12-18· cited 27×
• Ray v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-10-15· cited 19×
• Winter v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-03-27· cited 18×
• Metellus v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2002-05-31· cited 9×
• Simon v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2008-12-17· cited 8×
• Lewis v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2002-10-11· cited 8×
• Byrd v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-03-31· cited 4×
• Hutchison v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2008-12-24
• Theophilus Bessellieu v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2018-09-14
• Madry v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2013-06-12
• Masaitis v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-03-10
• Ferguson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-11-03
• Hastings v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2002-06-04
• Cooper v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2007-01-10
• Sawyers v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2026-02-27
• Rene Woodall Lemos v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2026-03-20

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Novaton v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-03-24· cited 172×
• State v. Anderson
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1989-01-26· cited 72×
• Melvin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-11-23· cited 43×
• Asmer v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-06-23· cited 25×
• Sullivan v. Leatherman
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1950-11-21· cited 8×
• Gerlaugh v. Florida Parole Commission
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1962-04-13· cited 8×
• Dobson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-06-14· cited 7×
• Montanez v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1994-03-31· cited 6×
• Holt v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1987-11-17· cited 6×
• Bryant v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1995-02-24· cited 6×
• Hunter v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1978-04-10· cited 4×