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.xtion of false imprisonment : nor shall any person who
^hctll be discharged from confinement by such judgment
be afterwards confined or imprisoned for the same cause,
unless by the order or judgment of a court of competent
jurisdiction.
10. Be it further enacted, That, if any party to such Writ of error fee
judgment rendered by a judge of the circuit court in vacation,
or the said court in term time, shall feel himself
aggrieved thereoy, it shall be lawful for the superior court
having jurisdiction—On his motion to grant a writ of error
; and upon the trial, to reverse or affirm the judgment,
wholly or in part ; and to cause such other judgment
to be entered, and such other proceedings to be had
as the law and the right of the case may require ; either
awarding costs or not, at their discretion.
11. Be it further enacted, That the trial -pf all writs of Precedence
error to judgments in the case of habeas corpus, shall have
preference in the superior courts to all other trials.
EDMUND LAW, *
President of the Legislative Council,
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Aflproved September 16///, 1822.1
WILLIAM P* DUVAL,
GoYernor of the Territory o£ Florida.
TEST,
ROBERT MITCHELL,
Clerk of the Legislative Council.
AN ACT
For the apprehension of criminals, and the punishment q£ crimes and
misdemeanors.
1. Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Council
of the "Territory of Florida, That, when any person
shall be charged before a justice of the peace, with any
criminal offence, it shall be the duty of said justice forthwith
to issue his warrant for the apprehension of the suspected
criminal, directed to any sheriff or 'constable of
his county, commanding him to arrest sucli suspected
criminal, and bring him before any justice of the peace,
whose duty it shall be to issue his warrant to the officer
directing him to confine the prisoner, in the jail of his
county, and to- summon two justices of the peace of his
county, to meet at the court house of the county upon a
day fixed within ten days, to hold a court for the examina-
tion of the fact.
2. Be itfurther enacted, That, the two justices having
met as aforesaid, shall consider, whether, as the case
may appear to them, the prisoner may be discharged from
further prosecution, or may be tried in the circuit court
where it has jurisdiction, and where it has not, in the superior
court having cognizance of the offence, provided,
Warrant tor
hension.
however, that the decision of the justices shall be no bar Discharge no bur.
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For confinement.
Two justices
discharge.