SIERRA v. STATE

No. 81-2366.

429 So.2d 832 (1983)

Armando SIERRA, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

April 19, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender, and Claudia B. Greenberg, Sp. Asst. Public Defender, for appellant.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., and Calianne P. Lantz, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and DANIEL S. PEARSON and FERGUSON, JJ.


FERGUSON, Judge.

Testimony that appellant had stated several days before killing his wife that,

I'm an assassin, and I would kill anyone and I would do this when I go back to Cuba,

and on another occasion, three days before the stabbing, was heard to say,

Yes, you wait and see in the newspapers you're going to hear that I killed my wife and I killed myself,

was relevant and admissible...

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