Williams v. State

The appellant seeks reversal of a conviction for breaking and entering a dwelling with intent to commit petit larceny and commission of an assault, grounding his appeal on a contention that reversible error resulted from a reference in the testimony of a police officer to the victim having identified the defendant from mug shots.

In Jones v. State, Fla.App.1967, 194 So. 2d 24, this court reversed a judgment of conviction because the prosecutor in his opening statement to the jury in referring to the defendant having been identified from a photograph, said that a photograph of the defendant had…