State ex rel. Nichols v. Bullock

Citations

• 58 Fla. 534

Syllabus

<p>Circuit Court — Appellate Jurisdiction only in Cases Appealed to It From County Judge's Court.</p> <p>Under the Florida constitution and laws circuit courts have only appellate jurisdiction-in civil and criminal cases appealed from the courts of county judges, and in such caises circuit courts cannot exercise any original jurisdiction, such as permitting new or amended affidavits or charges to be there filed for the first time, or by trying the case anew before the judge or a jury, but in such cases the circuit courts act appellatively only, and review and pass upon the case as tried in the county judge’s court upon the transcript of record brought up by the appeal, and simply reverse or affirm as error may or may not appear from such record. The appeal in such a case from the county judge’s court to the circuit court operates simply as a common law writ of error.</p>