STATE v. HOLMES

Nos. 69-450 to 69-452.

256 So.2d 32 (1971)

STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Jimmy Jack HOLMES, Appellee. STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Jimmy Jack HOLMES and William Stafford Allison, Appellees. STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Jimmy Jack HOLMES and William Stafford Allison, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Rehearing Denied January 21, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E.J. Salcines, County Sol., and Robert H. Mackenzie, Asst. County Sol., Tampa, for appellant.

Mark Hawes and Britt Whitaker, Tampa, for appellees.


MANN, Judge.

This case presents one question of inordinate intricacy and one suggesting inordinate ingenuity of counsel. First the facts:

Shortly before two o'clock one wet morning Detective Cloud, responding to a reported breaking and entering, saw a car he believed to be Holmes' going "too fast for conditions," sliding around a corner and running with lights out. A chase ended in Holmes' front yard. Holmes got out of his car. He had a pistol in his hand...

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