GEG v. State

417 So.2d 975 (1982)

G.E.G., a Child, Petitioner,

v.

STATE of Florida, Respondent.

No. 59948.

Supreme Court of Florida.

July 15, 1982.

Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender and Cherry Grant, Asst. Public Defender, Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, West Palm Beach, for petitioner.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen. and C. Michael Barnette, Asst. Atty. Gen., Daytona Beach, for respondent.

SUNDBERG, Justice.

The typical drug possession case finds the defendant contesting on appeal the admission into evidence of the substance allegedly possessed. This case presents the antipodal issue: petitioner challenges the…