LAWRENCE D. EVANS, APPELLANT,
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE; NATHANIEL PRESSLEY, APPELLANT, V. STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE; CHARLES ELWOOD COBB, APPELLANT, V. STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Fla. | 1973-02-14
Nos. 40853, 40860 and 40984
CARLTON, C. J., and ROBERTS, ERVIN, ADKINS, BOYD, McCAIN and DEKLE, JJ., concur.
275 So. 2d 226 Florida Supreme Court (1973) Positive Treatment
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Opinion of the Court
PER CURIAM.

PER CURIAM.

The appellants were convicted of murder in the first degree without recommendation of mercy in the Circuit Court, m and for Dade County, Florida. Subsequently, under authority of Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238, 92 S.Ct. 2726, 33 L.Ed.2d 346 (1972), the Supreme Court of Florida in Anderson v. State, 267 So.2d 8 (Fla.1972), reduced appellants’ sentences from death to life imprisonment. Upon careful consideration of the record and briefs, we find no reversible error. Accordingly, the convictions, as previously modified by reduction of sentences, are affirmed.

It is so ordered.

CARLTON, C. J., and ROBERTS, ERVIN, ADKINS, BOYD, McCAIN and DEKLE, JJ., concur.

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