SKIRIOTES v. FLORIDA

No. 658.

313 U.S. 69 (1941)

SKIRIOTES v. FLORIDA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 28, 1941.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. W.B. Dickenson for appellant.

Mr. Nathan Cockrell, Assistant Attorney General of Florida, with whom Mr. J. Tom Watson, Attorney General, was on the brief, for appellee.


MR. CHIEF JUSTICE HUGHES delivered the opinion of the Court.

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 ...

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