SMITH v. PORTANTE

No. 36774.

212 So.2d 298 (1968)

Gordon A. SMITH, Appellant, v. Peter A. PORTANTE, Jr., Thomas J. Lummus and E.B. Leatherman, ex Officio, As Members of the Dade County Jury Commission, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Florida.

July 2, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Shutts & Bowen, Herbert L. Nadeau and Karl Vance Hart, Miami, for appellant.

Earl Faircloth, Atty. Gen., T.T. Turnbull and Stephen Marc Slepin, Asst. Attys. Gen., for appellees.


ERVIN, Justice.

This is an appeal from a declaratory decree of the Circuit Court of Dade County, Florida, upholding the constitutionality of Section 40.101, Florida Statutes 1967, F.S.A., which reads as follows:

"(1) In order to gather essential information concerning prospective jurors in advance of the actual impaneling of grand or petit juries, jury commissioners, or county commissioners in those counties not having jury commissioners, are authorized and...

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