State ex rel. Furlong v. Goodman

CARROLL, Judge.

By this proceeding in prohibition the petitioner Lorin Lee Furlong seeks to avoid trial on the ground of double jeopardy.

Furlong and Robert Lawrence Greenwood were charged by information with the crime of robbery. They were brought to trial together before a jury in the criminal court of record of Dade County. Opening statements by counsel were followed by testimony of the victim of the alleged robbery and that of police officer Larry E. Vitt.

After cross-examination of officer Vitt by Furlong’s attorney, and at the point where he was to be cross-examined by Greenwood’s…