BRUMFIELD v. STATE


108 So.2d 33 (1958)

Robert BRUMFIELD, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee. Ben SILVER, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Florida.

Rehearing Denied January 28, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Albert B. Bernstein and Bernstein & Hodson, Miami, for appellant Brumfield.

Scott, McCarthy, Preston, Steel & Gilleland, Miami, for appellant Silver.

Richard W. Ervin, Atty. Gen., and Odis M. Henderson, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

Herbert L. Heiken, Miami Beach, Sinclair & Nicholson, Howard W. Dixon, Park H. Campbell, John E. Kirk, Melbourne L. Martin, Walter Humkey and Thomas McE. Johnston, Miami, amici curiae.


DREW, Justice.

The appellants in these causes, consolidated for treatment in this opinion, have been adjudged in contempt of court for willful violation of an order of the Circuit Court for Dade County prohibiting the photographing of a certain prisoner "in the jail preceding his arraignment, or on his way to or from the court session * * * or in the courtroom.1

The prisoner, Howard B. Picott, had been indicted for rape. Prior...

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