WESTBROOK v. STATE

No. 82-1465.

439 So.2d 1039 (1983)

Alexander WESTBROOK, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

November 2, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dorothy M. Walker of Walker & Vetrick, Belle Glade, for appellant.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Joy B. Shearer, Asst. Atty. Gen., West Palm Beach, for appellee.


ANDREWS, ROBERT LANCE, Associate Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction of attempted first degree murder and a sentence of thirty years.

The facts surrounding the stabbing of the victim involve a web of alleged or actual homosexual relationships or of promises of such relationships at the Glades Correction Institute. There is no dispute that appellant stabbed the victim, as counsel stipulated to that fact.

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