KENNEDY v. STATE

No. 61694.

455 So.2d 351 (1984)

Edward KENNEDY, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Florida.

Rehearing Denied September 25, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Glenna Joyce Reeves, Asst. Public Defender, Second Judicial Circuit, Tallahassee, for appellant.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen. and Kathryn L. Sands, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jacksonville, for appellee.


BOYD, Chief Justice.

This cause is before the Court on appeal from a judgment of conviction of two counts of murder in the first degree. The appellant was sentenced to death for each of the two murders. We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(1), Fla. Const.

The evidence showed that appellant was an inmate at Union Correctional Institute, serving a sentence of life imprisonment when, on April 11, 1981, he escaped. He broke into a home where he changed clothes...

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