Dukes v. State

442 So.2d 316 (1983)

Randolph DUKES, Appellant,

v.

STATE of Florida, Appellee.

No. 83-601.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

December 2, 1983.

Jerry Hill, Public Defender, and Paul C. Helm, Asst. Public Defender, Bartow, for appellant.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and M. Ann Garrison, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for appellee.

LEHAN, Judge.

Defendant appeals his conviction for robbery after a trial in which testimony of certain defense witnesses was excluded. We reverse.

At trial one of the state's witnesses was a former cellmate of defendant who testified that defendant had…