Legal Opinion

Ables v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided October 18, 1976No. Z-16PublishedCited by 11 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

338 So.2d 1095 (1976)

James Perry ABLES, Jr., Appellant,

v.

STATE of Florida, Appellee.

No. Z-16.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

October 18, 1976.

Rehearing Denied November 24, 1976.

Burke D. Chester, Daytona Beach, for appellant.

Robert L. Shevin, Atty. Gen., and Jeanne Dawes Schwartz, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, for appellee.

SMITH, Judge.

Ables appeals from his conviction of murder in the first degree and a sentence of life imprisonment. The most substantial question presented is whether the trial court committed reversible error in charging the jury that it might convict the…

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2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. Brown v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1968
  2. Sullivan v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1974
  3. Knight v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1976
  4. Perkins v. MayoSupreme Court of Florida · 1957
  5. State v. WashingtonSupreme Court of Florida · 1972

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3Cited by11 opinions

  1. Lightbourne v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1983
  2. Thomas Knight A/k/a, Askari Abdullah Muhammad v. Richard L. Dugger and Tom BartonCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1989
  3. State v. JonesSupreme Court of Florida · 1979
  4. Vasil v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1979
  5. Atwell v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1999

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