Peel v. State

PIERCE, Judge.

This case is an appeal by appellant Joseph A. Peel, Jr., from an order denying without hearing his petition brought before the lower Court under former Rule 1, for relief from a judgment of conviction theretofore entered against him.

On November 23, 1960, Peel was indicted by the Palm Beach County grand jury charged with being an accessory before the fact to the first degree murder of Marjorie M. Chillingworth. One Floyd A. Holzapfel was charged in the same indictment as principal in the first degree. While the jurors to try Peel were being interrogated upon their voir dire, he…