JONES v. STATE

No. 2324.

227 So.2d 326 (1969)

Willie Frank JONES, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida. Fourth District.

October 29, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Lavon Ward, Public Defender, Fort Lauderdale, for appellant.

Earl Faircloth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Charles W. Musgrove, Asst. Atty. Gen., West Palm Beach, for appellee.


McCAIN, Judge.

As we unsheathed the sword forged by the Supreme Court of the United States in Bruton1 to slice into a judgment of guilt where confessions of three co-defendants who did not testify were admitted into evidence over timely objections, we were visited with an Armageddon in the form of Harrington2 where the same court now pronounces that where evidence of guilt is otherwise "overwhelming...

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