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· 6/15/1893

State ex rel. Archibald McCallum & Son v. Smith

Citations

  • 32 Fla. 476

Syllabus

<p>A defect of statement in a replevin affidavit is not fatal to the jurisdiction of the cause, but is amendable under Section 1723 Rev. Stats. ; and prohibition is not a proper remedy for correcting the error of a justice of the peace in refusing to allow an amendment of such defect, the error being one com-mitt d in the prog'ress of a cause of which the justice had jurisdiction notwithstanding the defect.</p>

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  • rule requiring additional incriminating evidence for constructive possession “shows judicial wariness that guilt on circumstantial evidence be imputed only on substantial proof”

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Judges: Raney

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