JONES

v.

WAINWRIGHT

Citator

Cited By

• Floyd v. State, 569 So. 2d 1225 (Fla. 1990)
  …ints from victim’s property with tires of defendant’s car was one upon which deputy sheriff was qualified to testify under facts presented, leaving to the jury the determination of credibility and weight to be given to that testimony), cert. denied, 168 So. 2d 148 (Fla.), cert. denied, 381 U.S. 916, 85 S.Ct. 1541, 14 L.Ed.2d 436 (1965). We find the officers’ testimony within the permissible range of lay observation and ordinary police experience. Hence, the trial court did not abuse its discretion in admittin…
• Johnston v. State, 497 So. 2d 863 (Fla. 1986)
  …eyer as an expert. The testimony given by Officer Oster-meyer in this instance is analogous to the non-expert testimony held admissible in Jones v. State, 440 So. 2d 570 (Fla.1983), and Peacock v. State, 160 So. 2d 541 (Fla. 1st DCA), cert. denied, 168 So. 2d 148 (Fla.1964), cert. denied, 381 U.S. 916, 85 S.Ct. 1541, 14 L.Ed.2d 436 (1965). In Jones, we held that a police officer’s testimony that the mark on the “stash house” window sill was made by the recoil of a high-powered rifle was admissible. Our hold…
• Jones v. State, 440 So. 2d 570 (Fla. 1983)
  …was not qualified to testify that, in his opinion, the mark on the “stash house” window sill was made by the recoil of a high-powered rifle. This argument is also without merit. In Peacock v. State, 160 So. 2d 541 (Fla. 1st DCA 1964), cert. denied, 168 So. 2d 148 (1965), the court of appeal found similar non-expert testimony to be admissible and allowed a deputy to testify as to his visual comparison of a defendant’s automobile tires with casts of tire prints found near the scene of the crime. In so doing, t…