POSEY v. STATE

No. K-12.

214 So.2d 750 (1968)

Edsel POSEY, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida. First District.

November 1, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brooks Taylor, Crestview, for appellant.

Earl Faircloth, Atty. Gen., and George R. Georgieff, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.


SPECTOR, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of second-degree murder and was sentenced to serve twenty years in the state penitentiary. The victim, Larry Lewis, was shot by appellant in the course of an incident wherein the latter tried to get the victim and his hunting companions off his land.

We know of no authority whereunder a landowner may enforce his right to exclusive hunting privileges on his own land by shooting trespassers. As unsportsmanlike as the latter...

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