BASSETT v. STATE

No. 58803.

449 So.2d 803 (1984)

Theodore Augustus BASSETT, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Florida.

Rehearing Denied May 24, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard R. Cook and Carmen F. Corrente, Daytona Beach, for appellant.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen. and Edward M. Chew, Asst. Atty. Gen., Daytona Beach, for appellee.


ALDERMAN, Chief Justice.

Appellant appeals his two convictions of first-degree murder and his sentence of death. We affirm the convictions and death sentence.

On December 12 and 13, 1978, appellant's codefendant, John Cox, directed the Volusia County Sheriff's Department to the skeletal remains of two bodies. Cox confessed to the murders and implicated appellant.

At the time the bodies were discovered, the sheriff's department was holding appellant...

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