Cagnina v. State

SWANN, Judge.

The appellant, Sam Cagnina, was charged, by an information filed in Monroe County, Florida, with robbery by force and violence. A trial of the cause resulted in the acquittal of a co-defendant, Ishmael Garcia, and the conviction of the appellant. Cagnina on appeal contends the trial court erred on three separate points.

Appellant’s third assignment of error was that the trial court erred in failing to allow his counsel the right to closing argument to the jury, inasmuch as he had offered no testimony in his own behalf. The State contends that the co-defendant, Ishmael Garcia,…