STATE v. BLACK

No. S-132.

284 So.2d 467 (1973)

STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Edred Augustus BLACK, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

October 30, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Shevin, Atty. Gen., Donald G. Nichols, Jacksonville, W. Hugh Cotney, Gainesville, and Bartley K. Vickers, Jacksonville, for appellant.

Louis O. Frost, Jr., Public Defender, Ronald B. Cosgrove and James O. Brecher, Asst. Public Defenders, for appellee.


JOHNSON, Judge.

This is an interlocutory appeal from the Criminal Court of Record for Duval County, seeking a reversal of the order of the trial court suppressing a confession of the defendant-appellee.

From the facts briefly stated, it appears that the appellee found the dead nude body of a Negro female in a tool shed behind a high school in Jacksonville. He reported this finding to the police department. The appellee, at the date he found the body, was employed...

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