SAYAN v. STATE

No. 78-1400.

381 So.2d 363 (1980)

Melvin Douglas SAYAN, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

March 26, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender, and Tatjana Ostapoff, Asst. Public Defender, West Palm Beach, and Robert J. Fogan, Fort Lauderdale, for appellant.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, Russell S. Bohn and Mary E. Marsden, Asst. Attys. Gen., West Palm Beach, for appellee.


ANSTEAD, Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment of conviction for first degree murder. The appellant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence and claims the trial court erred in several other respects during the course of his trial.

We have reviewed the entire record including the transcripts of testimony presented at trial; and, although we agree that the state's case was principally based on circumstantial evidence, we find the evidence is adequate to sustain...

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