HIGHSMITH v. STATE

No. 71-68.

252 So.2d 294 (1971)

Darwin HIGHSMITH, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

September 8, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter R. Talley, Public Defender, and D. Turner Matthews, Asst. Public Defender, Bradenton, for appellant.

Robert L. Shevin, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and P.A. Pacyna, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for appellee.


MANN, Judge.

Highsmith filed in the trial court an "Appeal for Justice" which the trial judge properly considered as a notice of appeal. In it he asserts that he did not and could not get justice in the court at Tampa because he is black. We have examined the record with care and find this contention groundless.

Highsmith was indicted on two counts of murder in the first degree. He was sixteen, and the charge was based on two instances in which a group of...

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