SMITH v. STATE

No. AY-63.

464 So.2d 1340 (1985)

Ronald Melvin SMITH, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

March 15, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael E. Allen, Public Defender, and Michael J. Minerva, Asst. Public Defender, Tallahassee, for appellant.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen. and Gary L. Printy, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, for appellee.


SHIVERS, Judge.

Appellant appeals his judgment of conviction for first degree murder. We affirm appellant's conviction and hold that (1) similar fact evidence of a prior crime was properly admitted and (2) the trial court's refusal to instruct the jury regarding time-barred lesser included offenses was proper.

Appellant, defendant in the proceedings before the trial court, was indicted on January 25, 1983, for a first degree murder occurring in 1975, by arsenic...

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