Opinion
January 22, 1954. Rehearing Denied February 26, 1954.
Appeal from the Criminal Court of Record for Dade County, Ben C. Willard, J.
Edward A. Brown, Jr., Malcolm S.H. Kneale and Malcolm Lewis Kneale, Miami, for appellants.
Richard W. Ervin, Atty. Gen., and Mark R. Hawes, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.
These cases were consolidated and tried together. Separate judgments were entered and two appeals were taken by defendants. They urge numerous questions here but few if any of them comply with the rules and some of them have no place in this Court. The record in each case was about forty pages, twelve pages of which exemplified the evidence. If the rules had been complied with the entire record would have been less than half this much. Appellant has also filed about 75 pages of brief in both cases. We are convinced that ten pages properly prepared would have served the purpose better. Much of the brief is devoted to assaults on the trial judge and prosecuting attorney for which we find no place in the record. Appellants justify this departure from approved professional standards on the ground that their rights were trespassed on at the trial. Not a syllable of law or logic supports this contention. Dealing in personalities corrects nothing. In fact, it requires diligent searching to find anything that was done in compliance with correct standards. Appellants appear to be unable to distinguish between a ground of appeal and a basis to vent the spleen.
Since no error is pointed out the judgment appealed from in both cases must have been correct and is hereby affirmed.
Affirmed.
ROBERTS, C.J., TERRELL and DREW, JJ., and SPOTO, Associate Justice, concur.