PERKINS v. STATE

No. 37005.

228 So.2d 382 (1969)

Cecil PERKINS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Florida.

Rehearing Denied November 24, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

S. Gunter Toney, of Toney & Guarisco, Tallahassee, for appellant.

Earl Faircloth, Atty. Gen., and Wallace E. Allbritton, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.


PER CURIAM.

This is a direct appeal from a verdict and judgment convicting Appellant of rape without recommendation of mercy. Jurisdiction of the appeal attached under Section 4(2), Article V, Florida Constitution, F.S.A.

Appellant, Cecil Perkins, a seventeen-year-old Negro, was indicted on October 9, 1967 for the rape of a nineteen-year-old white woman. The victim testified she lived in a trailer about five miles north of Havana, Florida, with her husband...

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