EVANS v. STATE

No. 2138.

140 So.2d 348 (1962)

Anita Lucy EVANS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida. Second District.

April 27, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles F. Benson, Tampa, for appellant.

Richard W. Ervin, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Robert R. Crittenden, Asst. Atty. Gen., Lakeland, for appellee.


KANNER, Judge.

Review is sought by defendant of her conviction of second degree murder rendered by a jury and the sentence by the trial court of 20 years imprisonment in the state penitentiary. Defendant directs her appeal primarily toward refusal by the trial judge to admit testimony of a certain clinical psychologist with reference to her defense of temporary insanity.

Prior to trial, the court ordered that defendant be examined by two qualified and disinterested...

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