BELL v. STATE

Nos. 75-1577, 75-1578.

338 So.2d 1328 (1976)

Arnold BELL and Robert Smith, Appellants, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Rehearing Denied December 7, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack O. Johnson, Public Defender, Bartow, and Douglas A. Wallace, Asst. Public Defender, Bradenton, for appellants.

Robert L. Shevin, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Robert J. Landry, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for appellee.


GRIMES, Judge.

Appellants were convicted of robbery and sentenced to life imprisonment. Their only points on appeal worthy of consideration relate to whether they were improperly limited in their exercise of peremptory challenges to the jury.

The appellants were tried together. Prior to trial the court ruled that they were each entitled to only six peremptory challenges rather than the ten peremptory challenges which they had requested. An assertion of the...

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