Legal Opinion
Knight v. State
District Court of Appeal of Florida
Decided July 7, 1981No. 78-1287PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
402 So.2d 435 (1981)
James Eric KNIGHT, Appellant,
v.
The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 78-1287.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
July 7, 1981.
Rehearing Denied September 8, 1981.
Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender and Douglas D. Stratton, Sp. Asst. Public Defender, for appellant.
Jim Smith, Atty. Gen. and Steven R. Jacob, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.
Before HUBBART, C.J., and HENDRY and DANIEL S. PEARSON, JJ.
DANIEL S. PEARSON, Judge.
Sufficient evidence of corpus delicti is not only a predicate to the admission of a confession, see State v. Allen, 335 So.2d 823 (Fla. 1976);…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Smith v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- State v. AllenSupreme Court of Florida · 1976
- Lambright v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1894
- Tucker v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1912
- Ruiz v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1980
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3Cited by10 opinions
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- State v. HepburnDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1984
- Lattimore v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1990
- M.L.K. v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1984
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