Steele v. Mayo

Decision Date07 May 1954
Citation72 So.2d 386
PartiesSTEELE v. MAYO.
CourtFlorida Supreme Court

Geoffrey M. Steele, in pro. per.

Richard W. Ervin, Atty. Gen., Mark R. Hawes, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.

TERRELL, Acting Chief Justice.

Petitioner was granted writ of habeas corpus on a petition charging that he was tried in the Criminal Court of Record, Duval County, for breaking and entering with intent to commit grand larceny, the information being in three counts.He was convicted on counts one and three and acquitted on count two.He was sentenced on counts one and two.Respondent's return to the writ shows that petitioner was sentenced to terms of five and two years respectively on counts one and three and that he is lawfully in custody.

The return admits that the records, Criminal Court of Record, Duval County, because of a typographical error, show that petitioner's two year sentence was predicated on the second count of the information, on which petitioner was acquitted, but says respondent on the 15th day of February, 1954, by nunc pro tunc order, copy of which is made part of the return, the said records were corrected to make them speak the truth.We think the trial court was authorized to make the correction and that it cures the error in the judgment of conviction.Wheeler Fertilizer Company v. Rogers, Fla., 49 So.2d 83.

It is also contended that the charge of...

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25 cases
  • Edmond v. State
    • United States
    • Florida District Court of Appeals
    • June 27, 1973
    ...416. For more than a century the Supreme Court of Florida has adhered with constancy, with the single Apparent exception of Steele v. Mayo, Fla.1954, 72 So.2d 386, which we now understand more clearly and discuss herein, to the so-called single transaction rule, limiting punishment to the g......
  • Estevez v. State
    • United States
    • Florida Supreme Court
    • February 26, 1975
    ...imposed and that is for the highest offense charged, the District Court sub judice found that the Supreme Court had ruled in Steele v. Mayo, 72 So.2d 386 (Fla.1954), that sentences could be imposed for breaking and entering with intent to commit grand larceny and for larceny. Specifically, ......
  • Jenkins v. Wainwright
    • United States
    • Florida Supreme Court
    • July 2, 1975
    ...'facets of the same transaction' although they arose out of the same incident. We cited for authority our prior decision in Steele v. Mayo, 72 So.2d 386 (Fla.1954). The United States Supreme Court, in Gore v. United States, 357 U.S. 386, 78 S.Ct. 1280, 2 L.Ed.2d 1405 (1958), approved the ch......
  • State v. Conrad
    • United States
    • Florida District Court of Appeals
    • January 27, 1971
    ...charge for having committed or having attempted to commit the same specified felony, are two separate and distinct offenses. Steele v. Mayo, Fla.1954, 72 So.2d 386; Goodwin v. State, 1946, 157 Fla. 751, 26 So.2d 898; Taylor v. State, 1939, 138 Fla. 762, 190 So. 262; Albritton v. State, 1939......
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