Ginsberg v. 1966 Spring Term Grand Jury ex rel. Dade County

DREW, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment on pleadings entered in a taxpayer’s suit instituted by appellant seeking an accounting of funds spent by the 1966 Dade County Grand Jury, and upon cross-claim by the defendant county commissioners and state’s attorney asking declaration of their powers and duties in relation to the 1967 Grand Jury then impanelled.

Direct review by this Court1 is predicated on the trial court’s declaration that Chapter 57-870, Laws of Florida, is “void and unconstitutional because enacted at a time when it was beyond the power of the Legislature to enact a…