STATE v. PRESTON

No. 79-385.

387 So.2d 495 (1980)

STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Robert A. PRESTON, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

August 27, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas Cheshire, Jr., State's Atty., Titusville, and Alan B. Robinson, Asst. State's Atty., Sanford, for appellant.

David M. Porter, Public Defender, and Bennett Ford, Chief Asst. Public Defender, Titusville, Joan H. Bickerstaff, Asst. Public Defender, Cocoa Beach, and Andrew A. Graham, Cocoa, for appellee.


COBB, Judge.

The state appeals from the trial court's granting of defendant's pre-trial motion to suppress evidence on the grounds that a search of defendant's room in his mother's house was conducted without warrant and without consent. Defendant was charged with first degree murder, robbery, kidnapping, and sexual battery.

Concerning whether the defendant consented to a search of his room, we find substantial evidence to support the trial court's conclusion...

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