Cumbie v. State

MILLS, Judge.

CASE SUMMARY

Cumbie appeals from a judgment and sentence rendered after a jury trial in which the jury found him guilty of assault with intent to commit first degree murder and assault with intent to commit rape as charged by the State. We reverse.

FACTS

This is the third trial of Cumbie. The jury found him guilty as charged after the *2first trial but this conviction was reversed by the Supreme Court of Florida. The second trial ended in a mistrial.

On 30 May 1974, the victim and two other young women, residents of Connecticut, stopped at a campground called Palm Villa, near the ocean…