CHRISTIAN v. BUCHANAN

No. 23837.

373 F.2d 32 (1967)

James C. CHRISTIAN, a/k/a James Carlton Christian and Edgar P. Meli, Appellants, v. T. A. BUCHANAN, Sheriff of Dade County, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

January 24, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Edward Worton, Miami, Fla., for appellants.

Herbert P. Benn, Miami, Fla., George R. Georgieff, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tallahasse, Fla., Earl Faircloth, Atty. Gen., Richard E. Gerstein, State Atty., N. Joseph Durant, Jr., Asst. State Atty., Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida, for appellee.

Before TUTTLE, Chief Judge, and BELL and GOLDBERG, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

Appellants are incarcerated under state court sentences for violations of the Florida lottery laws. F.S.A. § 849.09. Their sentences were affirmed on appeal. Christian et al. v. State, 1965, Fla.Ct. App., Third Dist., 1965, 176 So.2d 561. Their applications for certiorari to the Supreme Court of Florida were dismissed on a procedural ground. It was agreed on oral argument that the issue here was presented in the...

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