ADAMS v. STATE

No. 45450.

341 So.2d 765 (1976)

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

Supreme Court of Florida.

Rehearing Denied February 14, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender, Kenneth J. Scherer, Chief Asst. Public Defender, and Lois J. Frankel and Craig S. Barnard, Asst. Public Defenders, for appellant.

Robert L. Shevin, Atty. Gen., and Michael M. Corin and George R. Georgieff, Asst. Attys. Gen., for appellee.


PER CURIAM.

This cause is before us on direct appeal from a first degree murder conviction and sentence of death imposed by the trial judge. The jury recommended the death sentence. We have jurisdiction.1

On November 12, 1973, at approximately 10:30 a.m., the victim Edgar Brown was brutally beaten with a fire poker during the course of a robbery in his home. Brown was found shortly thereafter, fatally injured and incoherent. He...

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