Pinkney v. State

CARLTON, Justice:

This direct appeal has been taken from a sentence of death passed upon appellant by Circuit Court, Palm Beach County, following appellant’s indictment, trial and conviction without recommendation of mercy for the crime of rape. Article V, Section 4(2), Florida Constitution, F.S.A. We affirm.

The following facts were not disputed at trial. At approximately six o’clock A.M. on July 14, 1968, appellant broke through a screened window and entered the kitchen of a house in West Palm Beach. Appellant proceeded through the house, taking money from at least one pocketbook and rifling…