Beckner v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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1. “Money in the hands of a constable, collected under execution awaiting distribution to private owners, does not belong to the public. It represents funds held in trust for individual litigants, and not for the State or its political subdivisions. The character of the money is determined by its ownership rather than by the manner and means of its collection.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 851 So. 2d 103 - Fitch v. State

2. “The words `public moneys' distinguish the funds from moneys privately owned. Public funds are those moneys belonging to the State or to any city, county or political subdivision of the State,—or more specifically, taxes, customs and moneys raised by the operation of law for the support of the government or for the discharge of its obligations.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 851 So. 2d 103 - Fitch v. State

3. “whether moneys collected by the constable, upon execution against judgment debtors and held to credit of judgment creditors, are public funds or moneys, where there is no evidence that any of the moneys alleged to have been misused, misapplied or embezzled were funds belonging to the State or any subdivision thereof.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 851 So. 2d 103 - Fitch v. State