Sossin Systems, Inc. v. City of Miami Beach, 72--185
Citation | 262 So.2d 28 |
Decision Date | 09 May 1972 |
Docket Number | No. 72--185,72--185 |
Parties | SOSSIN SYSTEMS, INC., Petitioner, v. CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, Respondent. |
Court | Court of Appeal of Florida (US) |
Joe N. Unger, Miami Beach, for petitioner.
Joseph A. Wanick, City Atty., for respondent.
Before BARKDULL, C.J., and CHARLES CARROLL and HENDRY, JJ.
This petition for certiorari presents for review a judgment of the circuit court of Dade County affirming a conviction of the petitioner in the municipal court of the City of Miami Beach. The initial action was a prosecution by the city against the petitioner and another for violation of a municipal ordinance designated as § 16--50 of the code of the City of Miami Beach, dealing with the sale of Kosher food. Pertinent sections thereof are as follows:
'A person who, with intent to defraud, sells or exposes for sale in any hotel, restaurant, or other place where food products are sold for consumption on the premises, any meat or meat preparation or any article of food or food preparation and falsely represents the same to be kosher, or as having been prepared in accordance with the orthodox Hebrew religious requirements * * * shall upon conviction thereof be punished as provided in Section 1--8 of the City Code.
'The possession of food, food products, beverages and merchandise which, in fact, are not kosher in any premises wherein it is held out that only kosher food, food products, beverages and merchandise are dealt in therein shall be prima facie evidence that the person in possession of such premises exposes such food, food products, beverages and merchandise for sale with intent to defraud.'
The charge, as stated in the process issued by the city, was that on April 12, 1971, Sossin Systems, Inc., a Florida corporation, the operator of Blackstone Hotel, did then and there violate Section 16--50 of the City of Miami Beach, Florida, to-wit:
The trial in the municipal court resulted in the conviction of Sossin Systems, Inc. and its appeal therefrom to the circuit court. That court entered a judgment of affirmance which contained certain findings of fact and conclusions of law, and which was twelve pages in length. The petitioner contends here, as it contended on appeal in the circuit court, that the evidence was insufficient to sustain the judgment of conviction, and that the ordinance involved is unconstitutional.
The petitioner urges this court to hold the ordinance is invalid, on the ground and...
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