UNITED STATES v. STATE

No. 65-147.

179 So.2d 890 (1965)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida and County of Dade, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida. Third District.

November 9, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William A. Meadows, Jr., U.S. Atty., and James O. Murphy, Jr., Edward A. Kaufman and Edward I. Heilbronner, Asst. U.S. Attys., for appellant.

Richard E. Gerstein, State Atty., and Roy S. Wood, Asst. State Atty., Thomas C. Britton, County Atty., and Gerald T. Wetherington, Asst. County Atty., for appellees.

Before HENDRY, C.J., and BARKDULL and SWANN, JJ.


SWANN, Judge.

United States of America, intervening plaintiff below, appeals an order and final judgment of forfeiture entered in the Circuit Court of Dade County, in which the court denied the claim of the United States to certain funds seized in connection with illegal gambling. The facts essentially are as follows.

On October 19, 1961 deputies of the Sheriff of Dade County made a gambling raid, with a search warrant...

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