Case Name: Charles Thomas HUNTER, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1969-06-18
Citations: 224 So. 2d 353
Docket Number: No. 68-400
Parties: Charles Thomas HUNTER, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: LILES, C. J., and McNULTY, L, concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 224
Pages: 353–354

Head Matter:
Charles Thomas HUNTER, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 68-400.
District Court of Appeal of Florida. Second District.
June 18, 1969.
Christopher C. Ford, of Duncan & Ford, Tavares, for appellant.
Earl Faircloth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Morton J. Hanlon, Asst. Atty. Gen., Lakeland, for appellee.

Opinion:
MANN, Judge.
Appellant's privately engaged trial counsel neglected to object to the trial court's failure, upon invocation of the rule, to require the prosecuting witness to leave the courtroom during the trial and to an allegedly prejudicial remark made by the state attorney in opening argument. These objections are lost.
Because the assistant public defender appointed to represent Hunter on appeal neglected to communicate with him for many months and, so far as the record shows, took no action of any consequence, and because the attorney appointed by the trial court upon discharge of the assistant public defender was so late in filing his brief and did so then only after a pointed reminder from this court, we have reviewed the entire record lest Hunter think this the us ual standard of justice in the Second Appellate District.
The trial court properly admitted Hunter's statement as a voluntary one. The evidence more than adequately supports Hunter's conviction of assault with intent to commit rape. It would in fact have supported a conviction of rape. The record is free from reversible error.
Affirmed.
LILES, C. J., and McNULTY, L, concur.