JOYNER v. CITY OF LAKELAND


90 So.2d 118 (1956)

Lennie Lee JOYNER, Petitioner, v. CITY OF LAKELAND, Florida, a Municipal Corporation, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Florida. Division A.

October 24, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W. Stanford of Oxford & Oxford, Lakeland, for petitioner.

J. Hardin Peterson, Jr., Lakeland, for respondent.


HOBSON, Justice.

This matter arises upon a petition for certiorari seeking review of an order of the circuit court affirming a judgment of the municipal court of the City of Lakeland, Florida, finding petitioner guilty of possessing lottery paraphernalia.

Although certiorari must be denied under the circumstances here disclosed, we have seen fit to depart in this case from our custom of denying certiorari without opinion, in view of the importance of the matter...

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