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STATE EX REL. COTTERILL v. BESSENGER

No. 31063.

133 So.2d 409 (1961)

STATE of Florida ex rel. Arthur COTTERILL, Petitioner, v. F. Leslie BESSENGER, Sheriff of Pasco County, Florida, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Florida.

October 4, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mabry, Reaves, Carlton, Fields & Ward and J.A. McClain, Jr., Tampa, for petitioner.

Richard W. Ervin, Atty. Gen., and James G. Mahorner, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.

THOMAS, Justice

The relator secured a writ of habeas corpus from this court commanding the respondent, Sheriff of Pasco County, Florida, to reveal by what authority he was restraining relator of his liberty.

The respondent filed his return stating that the petitioner was being held on a warrant for operating a nudist colony and sunbathers association in Pasco County, a county having a population of not less than 36,700 and not more than 38,000, in violation...

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