DYKEN v. STATE


89 So.2d 866 (1956)

Andrew Joseph DYKEN, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Florida. En Banc.

October 10, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gladstone L. Kohloss and Robert Eagan, Orlando, for appellant.

Richard W. Ervin, Atty. Gen., and Jos. P. Manners, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.


HOBSON, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the circuit court entered consequent upon a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree without recommendation of mercy.

The record before us discloses a brutal and shocking crime. The only point raised which is of merit is the propriety of the admission in evidence of an indescribably horrible photograph of the deceased lying on a mortuary slab. The deceased had been shot in the head with a shotgun...

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