Hopkins v. State

HOBSON, Chief Judge.

After the rendition of the judgments and sentences by the trial court, the Supreme Court of the United States filed its opinion in Rainwater v. Fla., 390 U.S. 196, 88 S.Ct. 900, 19 L.Ed.2d 1037. Also the Third District Court of Appeal filed its opinion in Rainwater v. State, App., 208 So.2d 865, subsequent to the rendition of the judgments and sentences appealed. The case sub judice and the two cases cited above are generally analogous and inasmuch as the trial court did not have the benefit of the said opinions at the time of the trial of the instant case and since it…