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87 So. 2d 513

Smoak v. State

Supreme Court of Florida

Decided May 18, 1956

Supreme Court of Florida · decided 1956-05-18

Relies on Cross v. State · Bargesser v. State

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Decided 1956-05-18

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Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently February 1985

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THORNAL, Justice

¶1(dissenting).

¶2The case was heard below by the trial judge without a jury. I am of the view *514that his conclusion is entitled to the same weight given to the verdict of the jury in cases where reasonable men might differ in their proper conclusions which might be drawn from the evidence submitted.

¶3It is my view that there is adequate evidence to support the conclusion of the trial judge and he should be affirmed on authoi»ity of the rule announced in Cross v. State, 96 Fla. 768, 119 So. 380; and Bargesser v. state, 95 Fla. 401, 116 So. 11.

TERRELL and ROBERTS, JJ., concur.
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