Merrill v. State

I respectfully dissent. The police chief’s testimony concerning his conversation with the hotel manager showed that the hotel manager sought out the police chief, in order to discuss a situation the manager considered dangerous to his employer [the hotel] and to himself. Chapter 365, Fla.Stat., F.S.A., imposes serious sanctions upon a business establishment whose communication facilities are used to conduct a bookmaking operation. See: Peters v. Southern Bell Tel. & Tel. Co., Fla. 1954, 70 So. 2d 547; Southern Bell Tel. & Tel. Co. v. *308Nineteen Hundred One Collins Corporation, Fla.1956, 83…