COLLINS v. STATE

No. 95-152.

698 So.2d 1337 (1997)

Moody Wayne COLLINS, Appellant, v. STATE OF Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

September 12, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nancy A. Daniels, Public Defender; Carol Ann Turner, Assistant Public Defender, Tallahassee, for Appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General; Thomas Crapps, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellee.


VAN NORTWICK, Judge.

Moody W. Collins appeals his conviction for second degree murder. Because at the trial below the prosecution improperly impeached its own witness for the purpose of admitting irrelevant and highly prejudicial evidence, we reverse and remand for a new trial.

Mr. Collins lived with his wife, Kathy, his two daughters and son, the victim of the homicide, in a rural area of Clay County. The Collins family did not have a telephone and their...

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