NEWMAN v. STATE

No. 4513.

174 So.2d 479 (1965)

Arnold Clifford NEWMAN, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida. Second District.

April 21, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles E. Davis, of Fishback, Davis, Dominick & Troutman, Orlando, for petitioner.

Earl Faircloth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Robert R. Crittenden, Asst. Atty. Gen., Lakeland, for respondent.


KANNER, Judge,

The skull of a Seminole Indian, John Osceola, about two years deceased at the time, was taken from a box or coffin situated on the ground in a sawgrass island of Big Cypress Swamp in the Florida Everglades, Collier County, by defendant-petitioner, Arnold Clifford Newman, a fourth year student at the University of Miami. He was charged by the State with wantonly and maliciously disturbing the contents of a tomb or grave. Jury trial was waived; Newman...

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