DINKENS v. STATE

No. 72-560.

291 So.2d 122 (1974)

James DINKENS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

February 27, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard W. Ervin, III, Public Defender, and Michael J. Minerva, Asst. Public Defender, Tallahassee, for appellant.

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


PER CURIAM.

James Dinkens appeals an adverse judgment and sentence to life imprisonment for murder in the first degree.

Dinkens' first point asserts that it was error to admit into evidence a certain pistol shown by a ballistics test to have fired a bullet found at the scene of the crime. The seizure of this pistol was made by a detective of the Jacksonville Sheriff's office. He received a tip from a "reliable" confidential informer that he would find the...

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