CANNEY v. STATE

No. 70-724.

298 So.2d 495 (1973)

Robert Benjamin CANNEY, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Rehearing Denied August 16, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benjamin E. Smith, of Smith & Scheuermann, New Orleans, La.; Maynard F. Swanson, Jr., Clearwater, and Gardner W. Beckett, Jr., St. Petersburg, for appellant.

Robert L. Shevin, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Charles Corces, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for appellee.


HOBSON, Judge.

Appellant seeks review of a judgment and sentence entered against him following a jury verdict of guilty as charged rendered September 22, 1970, in response to a Bill of Information charging appellant with "Resisting an Officer with Violence."

On April 18, 1970 an anti-Vietnam war rally was held at Straub Park in St. Petersburg, Florida. A podium was set up with a public address system and several speeches, in addition to appellant's, were made...

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