Legal Opinion
Spikes v. State
District Court of Appeal of Florida
Decided September 29, 1981No. 79-668PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
405 So.2d 430 (1981)
Martha SPIKES, Appellant,
v.
The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 79-668.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
September 29, 1981.
Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender and Alan R. Dakan, Asst. Public Defender, for appellant.
Jim Smith, Atty. Gen. and Joel D. Rosenblatt, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.
Before SCHWARTZ, NESBITT and BASKIN, JJ.
BASKIN, Judge.
Defendant Martha Spikes was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the second-degree murder of her child. She challenges the voluntariness of her confession, the trial court's refusal to instruct the jury…
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