Legal Opinion
Lamb v. State
District Court of Appeal of Florida
Decided March 1, 1963No. 3520PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALLEN, Judge.
The defendant below, appellant here, appeals from a conviction and sentence on a charge of operating and maintaining a place where intoxicating liquor was sold, as a second offender.
Point 4 raised by the appellant is as follows :
“That the Court erred in denying the defendant’s motion to quash the charge on the grounds that the second offender law is based on the theory of additional punishment for habitual offenders and in order for a valid charge to have been made under this act it would be necessary that the defendant be convicted of the second offense on a separate information…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Joyner v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1947
- Barnhill v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1949
3Cited by2 opinions
- County of Dade v. MolonyDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1965
- State ex rel. West v. Buchanan, Circuit Court of the 11th Judicial Circuit of Florida, Miami-Dade County1963