WILLIAMS v. STATE

No. 88745.

707 So.2d 683 (1998)

Samuel Francis WILLIAMS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Florida.

February 12, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nancy A. Daniels, Public Defender, and W.C. McLain, Assistant Public Defender, Second Judicial Circuit, Tallahassee, for Appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, and Mark S. Dunn, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellee.


PER CURIAM.

We have on appeal Samuel Francis Williams' conviction of first-degree murder and sentence of death. We have jurisdiction pursuant to article V, section 3(b)(1) of the Florida Constitution. For the reasons discussed below, we affirm the conviction of first-degree murder but vacate the death sentence and remand for imposition of a life sentence without eligibility for parole.1

Williams was convicted of the first-degree...

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