HARRELSON v. STATE

No. P-171.

259 So.2d 526 (1972)

Bobby Joe HARRELSON, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

March 28, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hugh T. Handley of Timmel, Handley & Campbell, Fort Walton Beach, for appellant.

Robert L. Shevin, Atty. Gen., Wallace E. Allbritton, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.


SPECTOR, Chief Judge.

Appellant was convicted of robbery and now seeks reversal of his conviction and sentence of twenty-five years to run consecutively to a sentence being served in the federal penitentiary. The primary contentions raised on appeal are that the trial court erred in failing to grant a continuance of the trial because of news stories published shortly before trial was to commence; and, secondly, appellant contends the prosecutor's closing argument...

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