Bennett v. State
District Court of Appeal of Florida
1Opinion of the Court
GLICKSTEIN, Judge.
Kenneth Matus was shot and killed while visiting in the house of Eugene Hicks. Appellant and Marcel Cardenas were indicted for his murder and for robbery of two handguns belonging to Mr. Hicks. In sepa*266rate trials Cardenas was acquitted and appellant was convicted of second degree murder and robbery. He was sentenced to two concurrent thirty year terms of imprisonment, which were subsequently reduced to concurrent twenty year terms. We affirm.
Hicks testified that between 6:30 and 7:00 P.M. on the day in question the front doorbell rang. He peered through a window and saw…
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