Supreme Court of Florida July 1, 1853 (Barber v. State)

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ANDERSON, C. J. :

This case is brought up by agreement as upon writ of error from the Circuit Court of Duval County. On the trial of the plaintiff in error on an indictment for assault and battery, the solicitor of the State omitted to prove the time when the offence charged was committed, till the prisoner’s counsel, on the solicitor announcing that he had closed, addressing the