The Differences Between a Criminal Case and a Civil Case. The American legal system is comprised of two very different types of cases, civil and criminal. Crimes are generally offenses against the state, and are accordingly prosecuted by the state.
Researchers at the University of West Florida say theyâve proved Spanish Explorer, Tristan de Luna established his Spanish colony of Pensacola in August of 1559. Thatâs six years before St. Augustine, which claims itâs the oldest because itâs been continuously occupied.
In St. Augustine, the oldest city in the U.S., there's a tourist attraction dating back a century that purportsâalbeit in a tongue-in-cheek wayâto be the fountain of youth that Ponce de Leon discovered soon after he arrived in what is now Florida in 1513.