PEEL v. STATE

No. 2711.

154 So.2d 910 (1963)

Joseph A. PEEL, Jr., Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida. Second District.

Rehearing Denied July 8, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry W. Fogle, of Fogle, Wilson & Shingler, St. Petersburg, for appellant.

Richard W. Ervin, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, Robert R. Crittenden, Asst. Atty. Gen., Lakeland, Phil D. O'Connell, State Atty., West Palm Beach, Eugene P. Spellman, Miami, for appellee.


OGILVIE, CLAUDE, Associate Judge.

This appeal involves one of two cases brought against Joseph A. Peel, Jr. by reason of his alleged participation in the murders of Judge Curtis E. Chillingworth and wife Marjorie M. Chillingworth in Palm Beach County on June 15, 1955. On his indictment as accessory before the fact of first degree murder of Marjorie M. Chillingworth, the defendant was convicted after entering a plea of nolo contendere and was sentenced to life...

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