STATE EX REL. SHOTKIN v. BUCHANAN

No. 63-86.

149 So.2d 574 (1963)

STATE of Florida ex rel. Bernard M. SHOTKIN, Petitioner, v. T.A. BUCHANAN, Metropolitan Dade County Sheriff, Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida. Third District.

February 19, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard M. Shotkin, in pro. per.

Richard W. Ervin, Atty. Gen., and Herbert P. Benn, Asst. Atty. Gen., Richard E. Gerstein, State Atty., and Glenn C. Mincer, Asst. State Atty., Darrey A. Davis, County Atty., and William W. Gibbs, Asst. County Atty., for respondent.

Before PEARSON, TILLMAN, C.J., and HORTON and HENDRY, JJ.


PER CURIAM.

The petitioner was arrested by the respondent on February 6, 1963, and incarcerated in the Dade County jail pursuant to a judgment of contempt entered on the 10th day of January, 1958, in a chancery proceeding then pending in the Circuit Court of Dade County, Florida. The petitioner, by letter, complained to this court that he was being illegally restrained. Writ of habeas corpus was issued by this court on February 7, 1963, to which the respondent sheriff...

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