REYNOLDS v. STATE

No. 68-506.

224 So.2d 769 (1969)

Madison Lee REYNOLDS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida. Second District.

July 2, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Jagger, Public Defender, and Edwin I. Ford, Asst. Public Defender, Clearwater, for appellant.

Earl Faircloth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Morton J. Hanlon, Asst. Atty. Gen., Lakeland, for appellee.


MANN, Judge.

A person who suffers a major upset over a minor grievance is admonished not to "make a federal case out of it." The advice is timely: we accept it and share it. We decline to make literally a federal case out of Reynolds' simple, though important, petition.

Some of the congestion of courts is judge-made, on advice of counsel. The Attorney General asks us to follow the decisions of the First District in Holstein v. State, Fla.App. 1967,

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