Jordan v. State

Per Curiam. Appellant was convicted by the court sitting without a jury of robbery with a deadly weapon and sentenced to ten years under the jurisdiction of the Department of Correction. He contends on this appeal that the trial court committed reversible error when it admitted certain money into evidence without it having been properly identified as the property of the victim. There was evidence showing that appellant and a confederate robbed Albert Wright, a cab driver, of $50.00, consisting of three five dollar bills, five one’s, two ten’s, and $10.00 in silver ; that the robbers fled when the police suddenly arrived on the scene; that the officers, armed with the description of the robbers, searched the area in which they had fled; that they found the appellant approximately thirty minutes after the robbery, four blocks from the crime scene, hiding beneath a truck; that a search of his person uncovered $21.75, consisting of three five dollar bills, five one dollar bills, $1.75 in coin; and that the three five’s and five one’s had been secreted in appellant’s left sock at the time of his arrest.

Appellant’s contention is that there was no evidence to show that the money found on appellant at the time of his arrest, and introduced in evidence at the trial, was the same money as that taken from the robbery victim. We see no merit in this argument. It is elementary that evidence need not be positively connected with the accused or the crime committed in order to render it admissible; it is admissible where there is a