State v. Hills

ON REHEARING

HERSEY, Judge.

Appellant, State of Florida, appeals a non-final order of the trial court, entered March 12, 1984, excluding physical evidence of a blood test and testimony concerning it. We reverse.

Appellee, Leroney Hills, was charged on December 13,1982, with two counts of first degree murder allegedly committed June 25, 1978. Two bloodstains found in the victim’s garage were tested in July 1978 by Richard Tanton, a serologist with the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Department, who concluded in 1983 that appellee could have contributed to one of the stains. When appellee was charged…