Conner v. State

Full title: FRED SHERRELL CONNER, APPELLANT, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District

Date published: May 18, 1981

398 So. 2d 983 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1981)

Opinion

No. VV-59.

May 18, 1981.

Appeal from the Circuit Court, Bay County, N. Russell Bower, J.

John F. Daniel, Panama City, for appellant.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., and Carolyn M. Snurkowski, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, for appellee.

PER CURIAM.

The trial court committed no error in denying appellant's motion to suppress certain statements he made at the scene of the accident giving rise to his conviction for manslaughter. These statements were volunteered spontaneously to the world at large, not a privileged accident report. Goodis v. Finkelstein, 174 So.2d 600 (Fla.3d DCA 1965).

In addition, appellant's waiver of speedy trial on the first information applied also to a second amended information based on the same criminal episode. State v. Boyd, 368 So.2d 54 (Fla. 2d DCA 1979), dism., 372 So.2d 466 (Fla. 1979); Homer v. State, 358 So.2d 1176 (Fla. 3d DCA 1978), cert. den., 364 So.2d 886 (Fla. 1978).

AFFIRMED.

ROBERT P. SMITH, Jr., LARRY G. SMITH and JOANOS, JJ., concur.