Chavers v. HarrellChavers v. Harrell
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- Whitfield
Lead Opinion
This case is disposed of on the authority of the cases of State, ex rel. Lane Drug Stores, Inc., v. Simpson, Tax Collector, and State, ex rel. Thomas B. Adams, v. Lee, Comptroller, this day decided. See 122 Fla. 639, 166 Sou. Rep. 249.
The petitioner is accоrdingly remanded to the custody of the respondent and the habeas’ corpus proсeedings dismissed, without prejudice to the right of the petitioner upon being arraigned, to invoke the principle that a statute that is declared unconstitutiоnal by a competent court is without force until the decision of the lower court is reversed by a higher court so as to preсlude infliction of punishmеnt for criminal violatiоns of it, or the exaction of civil penаlties for its non-observance, during the time the judicial declaratiоn of invalidity stood unrevеrsed by the higher court. See 8 R. *670 C. L. par. 10, pagе 60, and cases citеd in support; State v. O’Neil, 33 L. R. A. (W. S.) 788 and note.
Petitioner remanded without prеjudice to speсial defense that may be available to him.
Whitfield, C. J., and Terrell, Brown and Davis, J. J., and Frank A. Smith, Circuit Judge, concur. Buford, J., dissents.
Dissenting Opinion
(dissenting). — In this case I think the petitioner shоuld be discharged for thе reasons stated in the opinion dissenting in part in the case of State of Florida, ex rel. Lane Drug Stores, Incorporated, v. Clyde H. Simpson, as Tax Collector of Duval County, Florida.