HARRIS v. STATE

No. 83-758.

447 So.2d 1020 (1984)

David Lee HARRIS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

April 3, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender, Gitlitz, Keegan & Dittmar, Miami, and James D. Keegan, Sp. Asst. Public Defender, for appellant.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., and G. Bart Billbrough, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and HENDRY and FERGUSON, JJ.


PER CURIAM.

We reverse the appellant's second degree murder conviction for a new trial because of the prosecutor's totally irrelevant and highly prejudicial cross-examination of the defendant and his girlfriend-witness to the effect that he was a procurer and she, his prostitute.1 Bennett v. State, 316 So.2d 41 (Fla. 1975); Harris v. State, 427 So.2d 234

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