State v. Fitzpatrick

ALDERMAN, Chief Justice.

We review the decision of the District Court of Appeal, Fourth District, in Fitzpatrick v. State,- So.2d --(Fla. 4th DCA 1982), which was a companion case to the Fourth District’s case of King v. State, 425 So.2d 1379 (Fla. 4th DCA 1981). In both of these cases, the Fourth District certified the question of whether a juvenile can be indicted for an offense not punishable by death or life imprisonment.

We resolved this question in our recent decision in State v. King, 426 So.2d 12 (Fla. 1982), wherein we held that chapter 39, Florida Statutes (1981), has restricted grand…