Case Name: Roosevelt AUSTIN and Robert Jackson, Appellants, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1973-04-03
Citations: 275 So. 2d 572
Docket Number: No. 72-860
Parties: Roosevelt AUSTIN and Robert Jackson, Appellants, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: Before PEARSON, CHARLES CARROLL and HENDRY, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 275
Pages: 572–573

Head Matter:
Roosevelt AUSTIN and Robert Jackson, Appellants, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 72-860.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
April 3, 1973.
Phillip A. Hubbart, Public Defender and Alan S. Becker, Asst. Public Defender, for appellants.
Robert L. Shevin, Atty. Gen., and William L. Rogers, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appel-lee.
Before PEARSON, CHARLES CARROLL and HENDRY, JJ.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Appellants were tried before a jury upon an information charging robbery; they were found guilty and sentenced to twenty years in the state penitentiary. A review of the record reveals that the proof of appellants' guilt was clear and explicit.
On this appeal, they seek reversal upon points urging that (1) it was error for the court to fail to suppress as evidence the gun which was taken from one of them, and (2) it was error for the court to deny appellants' motion for mistrial when a witness made reference to an unrelated crime upon which one of the defendants was to be questioned. We hold that neither point presents reversible error. The gun was properly admitted into evidence because it was the fruit of a lawful arrest. The motion for mistrial was properly denied be cause the witness' response came upon cross-examination by the appellant and was of such an innocuous nature that the instruction to the jury was sufficient.
Affirmed.