CopyCited 9 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 1950 Fla. LEXIS 1062
...Ives and Russell H. McIntosh, West Palm Beach, for appellant. Richard W. Ervin, Attorney General, and Murray Sams, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, for appellee. ADAMS, Chief Justice. This appeal is from a judgment forfeiting a sum of currency under Section 849.12, Fla....
...It is further contended that the money was never used for gambling, and that the employee of the defendant, was without authority to use it for gambling." Upon this finding the trial court concluded that the money was being used for gambling purposes contrary to Section 849.12, Fla....
...Forfeitures are not favored at law and this statute has been, and must now be, strictly construed. See Boston & Florida *694 Atlantic Coast Land Co. v. Alford,
150 Fla. 296,
8 So.2d 483. Chapter 849, Fla. Stat. 1941, F.S.A., deals with the crimes of gambling. Section
849.12, Fla....
CopyCited 5 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida
...Atty. Gen., John D. Marsh, County Sol. and A.C. Dressler, Asst. County Sol., Miami, for appellant. Emmett W. Kehoe, Miami, for appellee. ROBERTS, Justice. This is an appeal by the State from an adverse judgment in proceedings instituted by it under Section 849.12, Fla....
CopyCited 2 times | Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal
...On this very question of gambling, the Florida Supreme Court held in City of Miami v. Miller,
148 Fla. 349,
4 So.2d 369 (1941), that not even gaming money could be forfeited, unless the authority to do so was supplied by the legislature. This, of course, has been accomplished in Section
849.12 of the Florida Statutes (1975)....
