STATE v. NOVAK

No. 86-1789.

502 So.2d 990 (1987)

The STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. James Howard NOVAK, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

February 17, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., and Mark S. Dunn, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellant.

Frank A. Rubino, Coconut Grove, for appellee.

Before BARKDULL and DANIEL S. PEARSON and JORGENSON, JJ.


DANIEL S. PEARSON, Judge.

The question on this appeal is whether, as the State contends, a warrant authorizing the search of certain premises is made valid by the mere fact that the police officer's affidavit, pursuant to which the warrant issued, identified the informant by name, notwithstanding that the affidavit, in all other pertinent parts, recounted only that the affiant was told by this sixteen-year-old, first-time informant that there was cocaine in the subject...

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