MILLER v. STATE

No. 80-950.

403 So.2d 1014 (1981)

Charles Henry MILLER, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

Rehearing Denied September 30, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James B. Gibson, Public Defender and Thomas R. Mott, Asst. Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for appellant.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee and C. Michael Barnette, Asst. Atty. Gen., Daytona Beach, for appellee.


COBB, Judge.

This is an appeal from a robbery conviction. Appellant raises two questions for our consideration. The first concerns the propriety of the court giving an Allen charge,1 sometimes called the "dynamite" charge. In this case, the charge was read to the jury once, and then only after the trial court had been advised by the jury that it could not reach a verdict after approximately two hours of deliberation. The standard...

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