STATE v. JOYCE

Nos. 51753, 52147.

361 So.2d 406 (1978)

STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. George JOYCE, Appellee. STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Alvin Leige HUTCHESON, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Florida.

July 27, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Shevin, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Paul H. Zacks, Asst. Atty. Gen., West Palm Beach, and T. Edward Austin, State's Atty., and Jay Howell, Asst. State's Atty., Jacksonville, for appellant.

Louis R. Bowen, Jr., Public Defender, and James P. Curry, Asst. Public Defender, Orlando, for George Joyce.

Louis O. Frost, Jr., Public Defender, Jacksonville, and William A. Rathbone, Asst. Public Defender, Ponte Vedra Beach, for Alvin Leige Hutcheson, appellee.


SUNDBERG, Justice.

This cause consists of consolidated appeals from orders of the County Courts for Orange and Duval Counties, which initially and directly passed upon the constitutionality of Section 827.04(2), Florida Statutes (1975). Jurisdiction vests in this Court pursuant to Article V, Section 3(b)(1), Florida Constitution.

Simple criminal child abuse,1 as proscribed by Section 827.04(2),2 may...

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