DIAMOND v. STATE

No. 71-416.

270 So.2d 459 (1972)

Jim Burns DIAMOND, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

December 19, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L.B. Vocelle, Vero Beach, for appellant.

Robert L. Shevin, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Nelson E. Bailey, Asst. Atty. Gen., West Palm Beach, for appellee.


OWEN, Judge.

When appellant's son (and another) were caught fishing without a license and charged with a violation of F.S. Section 372.57, F.S.A., appellant devised and initiated a scheme to aid the accused in "beating" the misdemeanor charge. Becoming ensnared in the tangled web woven by his attempted deception, appellant ultimately found himself convicted of the felony of perjury. His salvation, at least for the moment, is that the perjury which the evidence at...

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