WILLIAMS v. STATE

No. 79-1917.

386 So.2d 25 (1980)

Clementine WILLIAMS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Rehearing Denied July 29, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack O. Johnson, Public Defender, Bartow, and Allyn Giambalvo, Asst. Public Defender, St. Petersburg, for appellant.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Michael J. Kotler, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for appellee.


SCHEB, Acting Chief Judge.

Clementine Williams appeals her conviction and sentence for manslaughter. She contends that the trial court erred in not allowing her to attack the credibility of the state's chief witness by cross-examining the witness as to a false statement made to the police on a prior occasion. We agree and reverse.

A grand jury indicted Williams for the first degree murder of Allan Maultsby. Maultsby died as a result of a shooting that occurred...

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