STATE v. SOUTHWELL

No. JJ-218.

369 So.2d 371 (1979)

STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Patrick Shawn SOUTHWELL, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

Rehearing Denied April 30, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Shevin, Atty. Gen., and Richard W. Prospect, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellant.

Carlton P. Maddox of Dawson, Galant, Maddox, Sulik & Nichols, Jacksonville, for appellee.


MELVIN, Judge.

The appellant, the State of Florida, brings its timely interlocutory appeal to review an order granting appellee Southwell's motion to suppress evidence of contraband found in his overnight bag. We will refer to the parties as they were positioned in the trial court.

The defendant was a passenger on an airplane in flight from Miami to New York, when a stewardess noticed that he was unconscious. Her efforts to revive him having failed, she then...

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