WHIDDEN v. STATE

No. 78-1346.

374 So.2d 543 (1979)

Robert Michael WHIDDEN, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Rehearing Denied August 24, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald G. Doddington, Tampa, for appellant.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Robert J. Landry, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for appellee.


GRIMES, Chief Judge.

This case presents, in an unusual setting, the question of whether the legislature has done away with the distinction between the crimes of robbery and attempted robbery.

On June 5, 1977, law enforcement officers arrested appellant in Hillsborough County and charged him with attempted robbery. At that time appellant was sixteen years of age. Subsequently, the state presented the case to the Hillsborough County Grand Jury, and the grand...

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