Cooper v. City of Miami

SEBRING, J.:

The petitioner has filed a petition to obtain a review by certiorari of an order entered by the Circuit Court of Dade County affirming a judgment of conviction in the Municipal Court of the City of Miami. The record shows that the petitioner was adjudged guilty in said municipal court upon a charge that he “did then and there unlawfully set up and keep a gambling device at which a game of chance, to-wit: betting on horse races was then and there played for money ... in violation of Section 2 of Chapter 21 of the Code of said City.”

The evidence upon which the conviction was based…