Riley v. State

ON PETITION FOR “HOLLINGS-HEAD” APPEAL GRANTED

We have for consideration a Petition for a “Hollingshead Appeal”. (Hollingshead v. Wainwright, Sup.Ct.Fla.1967, 194 So.2d 557) The petition is filed by an Assistant Public Defender for the Fourth Judicial Circuit. It recites that within the 30 day jurisdictional period permitted for the filing of an appeal from the order by which petitioner was sentenced the petitioner requested that his attorney, the Public Defender, file a notice of appeal in his behalf. However, the petition recites, the Public Defender did not. move the trial court for an…