Title: Willis v. State

State: florida

Issuer: Florida Supreme Court

Document:

217 So. 2d 106 (1968)
Joe WILLIS, Petitioner,
v.
STATE of Florida, Respondent.
No. 37375.

Supreme Court of Florida.
December 18, 1968.
*107 T. Edward Austin, Jr., Public Defender, and Ralph W. Nimmons, Jr., Asst. Public Defender, for petitioner.
Earl Faircloth, Atty. Gen., and Raymond L. Marky, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.
PER CURIAM.
Petitioner was charged, tried and found guilty by a jury of the offense of robbery. The judgment of conviction was affirmed by the First District Court of Appeal. Willis v. State, 208 So. 2d 458 (1 DCA Fla. 1968).
On appeal to the District Court petitioner challenged the correctness of the trial court's ruling which admitted into evidence over petitioner's objection testimony of a police office who witnessed an extrajudicial identification of petitioner by the victim of the robbery the day after the offense occurred. The District Court in affirming the trial court stated in part as follows:
We issued a writ of certiorari because of apparent conflict between the decision of the District Court of Appeal with the opinion of this Court in Martin v. State, 100 Fla. 16, 129 So. 112 (1930):
We conclude that the First District Court opinion accurately expresses the prevailing law on the subject and the above *108 quotation from said opinion is hereby approved. The quotation from Martin is obiter, unnecessary to the decision in that case, and to the extent that it may be considered as authority is receded from.
The writ heretofore issued in this cause is accordingly quashed.
CALDWELL, C.J., and THOMAS, ROBERTS, DREW and THORNAL, JJ., concur.