Case Name: Calloway BROWN, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent
Court: Florida Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1970-06-24
Citations: 237 So. 2d 129
Docket Number: No. 39512
Parties: Calloway BROWN, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent.
Judges: ROBERTS, THORNAL and CARLTON, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 237
Pages: 129–130

Head Matter:
Calloway BROWN, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent.
No. 39512.
Supreme Court of Florida.
June 24, 1970.
Louis R. Bowen, Jr., Public Defender, and W. Ford Duane, Asst. Public Defender, for petitioner.
Earl Faircloth, Atty. Gen., and Reeves Bowen, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.

Opinion:
DREW, Justice.
This case comes here by petition for certiorari supported by a certificate of the District Court of Appeal that the decision there passes upon a question of great public interest.
No useful purpose would be served by an extended opinion of this Court. All facets of this troublesome question have been fully explored by the district court in the able majority and dissenting opinions and the copious authorities referred to in both opinions.
We are of the view that the majority opinion — a view supported by the majority of the courts over the country — should be and the same is hereby approved in all respects and adopted as the decision of this Court.
Much of the uncertainty concerning the question of what constitutes a felony under the constitution and laws of the state seems to have arisen out of the opinion of this Court in the case of Adams v. Elliott. Whatever is stated in that case or whatever inferences may be drawn from that case contrary to the conclusions reached in the majority opinion below are hereby receded from and overruled.
It is so ordered.
ROBERTS, THORNAL and CARLTON, JJ., concur.
ERVIN, C. J., concurs in part and dissents in part.
. Brown v. State, 232 So.2d 55 (4th Dist.Ct.App.Fla.1970).
. 128 Fla. 79, 174 So. 731 (1937).