DICKINSON

v.

BRIDGES, SHERIFF

Citator

Cited By

• Morse v. State, 604 So. 2d 496 (Fla. 1st DCA 1992)
  …nce in wastebasket); Jones v. State, 332 So. 2d 615 (Fla.1976) (murder suspect hurriedly left town on obviously one-way trip and was deemed to have abandoned shack). The defendant in United States v. Manning, 440 F. 2d 1105 (5th Cir.), cert. den., 404 U.S. 837, 92 S.Ct. 125, 30 L.Ed.2d 69 (1971), left behind no personal belongings or other items of value to suggest a continuing interest in the premises, and garbage and decayed food indicated an abandonment of the premises. That appellant’s residence was a…
• United States v. Sylvester, 848 F.2d 520 (5th Cir. 1988)
  …alked to a hunting post not within sight of the box. Whether property has been abandoned is a question of intent, which may be inferred from all the relevant facts and circumstances. United States v. Manning, 440 F. 2d 1105 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 404 U.S. 837, 92 S.Ct. 125, 30 L.Ed.2d 69 (1971). The government argues that the box “appeared to have been abandoned,” but the relevant facts and circumstances do not instruct, as a matter of law, that Sylvester intended to abandon the property. He simply was n…