Pinkney v. State

A police officer at the trial of this criminal case, while testifying for the State, said that when he read the defendant his Miranda rights at the scene, “he (the defendant) didn’t make any statements at that time other than he had just bought it (the stolen automobile) for three hundred dollars and that he didn’t have the registration or anything like that to it.” If it were constitutionally possible we would apply the “harmless error” rule to the facts of this case and affirm. However, we feel compelled to reverse upon the authority of Jones v. State, 200 So.2d 574 (Fla. 3d DCA 1967);…