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ATKINS v. STATE

No. 65974.

497 So.2d 1200 (1986)

Phillip A. ATKINS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Florida.

Rehearing Denied December 22, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack T. Edmund and Marshall G. Slaughter, Bartow, for appellant.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., and William E. Taylor, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for appellee.

BOYD, Justice.

In the late afternoon of September 23, 1981, Phillip Atkins, then age twenty-six, invited Antonio Castillo, who was six years old, to go for a car ride in the Lakeland area of Polk County. Later that evening young Antonio was found unconscious but alive, lying in a dirt road, wheezing and choking as he struggled to live. Antonio had been severely beaten about the head with a blunt instrument. He died in the emergency room of Lakeland General Hospital...

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