Edmond v. State

MANN, Chief Judge.

We consider the rule to be that if all the counts are good, and such as on which judgment can be awarded, and the evidence warrants the conviction, to pass judgment on the cotmt charging the highest grade of offence;

Cribb v. State, 1861, 9 Fla. 409, 416.

For more than a century the Supreme Court of Florida has adhered with constancy, with the single apparent exception of Steele v. Mayo, Fla.1954, 72 So.2d 386, which we now understand more clearly and discuss herein, to the so-called single transaction rule, limiting punishment to the gravest of those several offenses into…