Cochran v. State, D-330
Decision Date | 19 February 1963 |
Docket Number | No. D-330,D-330 |
Citation | 150 So.2d 249 |
Parties | Reginald COCHRAN, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee. |
Court | Florida District Court of Appeals |
Frank T. Cannon, Jacksonville, and D. C. Laird, Lakeland, for appellant.
Richard W. Ervin, Atty. Gen., and George R. Georgieff, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.
Appellant, together with five other defendants, were jointly charged with the offense of grand larceny. One of the defendants was never apprehended and the case proceeded to trial against the remaining five defendants. After the trial commenced, three of the defendants entered a plea of nolo contendere. The trial proceeded against appellant and one Woodrow 'Red' Grisette, which culminated in a jury verdict of guilty as charged. From a judgment and sentence based upon a jury verdict, defendant Cochran has appealed.
The principal point urged for reversal is that the evidence is insufficient to establish appellants' guilt as required by law. We have carefully reviewed the record and find sufficient competent evidence from which the jury could have reached the verdict here assaulted. The judgment is not vulnerable to attack on this ground.
In order to establish defendant's alleged guilt the State of Florida called as a witness a police officer who confessed implication in the transaction which formed the subject of this prosecution. At the conclusion of the evidence appellant requested the court in writing to charge the jury with respect to the weight which should be given to the testimony of an accomplice, which request was denied.
The charge requested by appellant, the denial of which is assigned as error, is as follows:
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