Case Name: Macon HIGGS, Jr., Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1972-12-20
Citations: 270 So. 2d 714
Docket Number: No. 40945
Parties: Macon HIGGS, Jr., Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: ERVIN, Acting C. J., and CARLTON, ADKINS, BOYD, McCAIN and DEKLE, JJ., and DREW, J. (Retired), concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 270
Pages: 714–715

Head Matter:
Macon HIGGS, Jr., Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 40945.
Supreme Court of Florida.
Dec. 20, 1972.
Leonard L. Stafford, Public Defender, for appellant.
Robert L. Shevin, Atty. Gen. and William W. Herring, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
The appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree without recommendation of mercy in the Circuit Court in and for Broward County, Florida. Subsequently, under authority of Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238, 92 S.Ct. 2726, 33 L.Ed.2d 346 (1972), the Supreme Court of Florida in Anderson v. State, 267 So.2d 8 (Fla.1972), reduced appellant's sentence from death to life imprisonment. After argument, and upon careful consideration of the record and briefs in this case, we find no reversible error. Accordingly, the conviction, as pre viously modified by reduction of sentence, is affirmed.
It is so ordered.
ERVIN, Acting C. J., and CARLTON, ADKINS, BOYD, McCAIN and DEKLE, JJ., and DREW, J. (Retired), concur.