CHAPMAN v. STATE

No. 73-331.

302 So.2d 136 (1974)

Ira C. CHAPMAN, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Rehearing Denied November 12, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James A. Gardner, Public Defender, Sarasota, and Ellen Condon, Asst. Public Defender, Tampa, for appellant.

Robert L. Shevin, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Guy E. Labalme, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for appellee.


MANN (Ret.), Judge.

After a trial by jury Chapman was convicted of rape and sentenced to 75 years in prison. He now appeals this conviction contending that a deposition taken in his absence was impermissibly used as evidence against him and further contending that the court improperly called his alleged accomplice as a court witness for the purpose of allowing the prosecution to impeach him by prior inconsistent statements.

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