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High v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District
Apr 12, 1972
260 So. 2d 549 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1972)

Opinion

No. 71-477.

April 12, 1972.

Appeal from the Court of Record for Hillsborough County, Harry Lee Coe, III, J.

Walter R. Talley, Public Defender, and Edwin T. Mulock, Asst. Public Defender, Bradenton, for appellant.

Robert L. Shevin, Atty. Gen., and Wallace E. Allbritton, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, for appellee.


This case differs from Jackson v. State, Fla.App.2d 1972, 259 So.2d 739 (opinion filed March 15, 1972) only in that the telephone booth which the appellant was accused of entering without breaking was outside of any other building. As in Jackson there is no showing of non-consent of the owner. It was a phone booth clearly accessible to the public. Of course, High may be guilty of taking money from a coin-operated vending machine pursuant to Fla. Stat. § 877.08, F.S.A. or an attempt to do so, but this record does not disclose a violation of Fla. Stat. § 810.05, F.S.A. For the reasons stated by Chief Judge Pierce in Jackson and Judge McNulty in his special concurrence, the judgment appealed from is reversed.

PIERCE, C.J., and LILES, J., concur.


Summaries of

High v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District
Apr 12, 1972
260 So. 2d 549 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1972)
Case details for

High v. State

Case Details

Full title:WILLIAM G. HIGH, APPELLANT, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Court:District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District

Date published: Apr 12, 1972

Citations

260 So. 2d 549 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1972)

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