Legal Opinion
Brown v. State
Supreme Court of Florida
Decided May 4, 1943PublishedCited by 70 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BUFORD, C. J.:
Officers, having concealed themselves near appellant’s home, watched the appellant hide something in bushes near the house which he occupied and immediately afterwards in vestigated and found the article which they had watched the appellant place in the bushes to be a half-gallon of moonshine whiskey on which the excise tax alleged to be required under the Beverage Act of the State of Florida had not been paid.
Information was filed, charging as follows: “that on the 16th day of May, 1942, at and in the County of Walton, State of Florida, A. C. Brown and Mrs. A. C. Brown did…
2Cases cited18 opinions
- Hall v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1939
- State v. EmpeyUtah Supreme Court · 1925
- Brown v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1900
- Bennett v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1912
- Finch and Stokes v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1934
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3Cited by70 opinions
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- Booker v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1987
- Pittman v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1990
- State v. WilliamsSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1968
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