Legal Opinion
Hicks v. State
District Court of Appeal of Florida
Decided September 10, 1963No. E-99PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TAYLOR, Associate Judge.
The appellants, hereinafter called defendants, were charged in the Circuit-Court of Jackson County with the crime-of grand larceny, tried in July, 1961, and! found guilty.
During this trial the defendants were-without counsel, but at the close of the evidence one of them stated to the Court “Your Honor, we have reason to believe that everybody has lied in this case. I' don’t see why it would have to go to the jury, these people have lied, everyone of' them.”
The presiding judge construed this statement as a motion for directed verdict and-denied it.
Thereafter the…
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- Elkins v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1960
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