Legal Opinion
Skiriotes v. Florida
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 26, 1941No. 658PublishedCited by 234 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Hughes
Appellant, Lambiris Skiriotes, was convicted in the county court of Pinellas County, Florida, of the use on March 8, 1938, of diving equipment in the taking of sponges from the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida in violation of a state statute. Compiled General Laws of Florida (1927), § 8087. The conviction was affirmed by the Supreme Court of Florida (144 Fla. 220; 197 So. 736) and the case comes here on appeal.
The case was tried without a- jury and the facts were stipulated. The statute, the text of which is set forth in the margin, 1 forbids the use of diving suits, helmets or other…
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