BROWN v. CITY OF JACKSONVILLE

No. M-488.

236 So.2d 141 (1970)

Hugh BROWN, Jimmy Lee Smith, Henry Edward Heath, Margaret Papachristou, Betty Jean Calloway, Eugene E. Melton, Leonard Johnson and Thomas Campbell, Petitioners, v. CITY OF JACKSONVILLE, Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

June 9, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Datz & Jacobson, Jacksonville, for petitioners.

William L. Durden, Special Counsel, and David U. Tumin, Asst. Counsel, for respondent.


RAWLS, Judge.

By petition for writ of certiorari, eight petitioners seek review of an order of the Circuit Judge affirming their convictions in the Jacksonville Municipal Court for violation of the vagrancy ordinance, to wit:

Sec. 26-57. Vagrants. "Rogues and vagabonds, or dissolute persons who go about begging, common gamblers, persons who use juggling or unlawful games or plays, common drunkards, common night walkers, thieves, pilferers or pick...

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