NIBERT v. STATE

No. 67072.

508 So.2d 1 (1987)

Billy Ray NIBERT, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Florida.

Rehearing Denied July 10, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, Tenth Judicial Circuit, and Douglas S. Connor, Asst. Public Defender, Bartow, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., and Theda J. James, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for appellee.


BARKETT, Justice.

Billy Ray Nibert appeals his conviction for first-degree murder and sentence of death. We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(1), Fla. Const. We affirm Nibert's murder conviction, but, for the reasons expressed below, we vacate his death sentence and remand for resentencing.

The testimony at trial revealed that the fifty-seven-year-old victim, Eugene Snavely, was a frequently intoxicated alcoholic...

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