SPEIGHTS v. STATE

No. N-122.

244 So.2d 530 (1971)

John David SPEIGHTS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

January 12, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis O. Frost, Jr., Public Defender, and Gerald Sohn, Asst. Public Defender, for appellant.

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


PER CURIAM.

Appellant was convicted of robbery and sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment. For reversal, it is contended that the trial court erroneously instructed the jury as to its responsibility to arrive at a verdict if possible by harmonizing their differences of opinion after the jury had been out for an hour and a half.

We have examined the cases cited by counsel for the parties, and it appears to us that the giving of the questioned instruction was...

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