Case ID: fla-supp_14/html/0117-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "RAY PEARSON, Circuit Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

CITY OF MIAMI v. CLAY.
    No. 4760.
    Circuit Court, Dade County, Criminal Appeal.
    April 28, 1959.
    Stephen F. Bazzano, Miami, for appellant.
    James J. McVeigh, Assistant City Attorney, Miami, for appellee.
   RAY PEARSON, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is submitted on the question whether a police officer has the lawful right to search the person of a defendant who has been lawfully arrested on the violation of a city traffic ordinance committed in the presence of the officer.

The court having reviewed the evidence adduced at the city trial, reviewed and considered the briefs filed by counsel for the parties and the cases therein cited, answers the question in the affirmative.

It is ordered and adjudged that the judgment and sentence are affirmed.