Atkins v. State

497 So.2d 1200 (1986)

Phillip A. ATKINS, Appellant,

v.

STATE of Florida, Appellee.

No. 65974.

Supreme Court of Florida.

October 30, 1986.

Rehearing Denied December 22, 1986.

Jack T. Edmund and Marshall G. Slaughter, Bartow, for appellant.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., and William E. Taylor, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for appellee.

BOYD, Justice.

In the late afternoon of September 23, 1981, Phillip Atkins, then age twenty-six, invited Antonio Castillo, who was six years old, to go for a car ride in the Lakeland area of Polk County. Later that evening young Antonio was found unconscious but alive, lying in a dirt…