HOLLIDAY v. STATE

No. 79-928.

389 So.2d 679 (1980)

Marc Leroy HOLLIDAY, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

October 28, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roy E. Black and Frank C. Furci, Miami, for appellant.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen. and Susan Minor, Asst. Atty. Gen., Miami, for appellee.

Before SCHWARTZ and BASKIN, JJ., and PEARSON, TILLMAN (Ret.), Associate Judge.


BASKIN, Judge.

Defendant appeals his conviction and sentence for assault, a lesser included offense of the original charge of sexual battery. We reverse because the trial court committed error in certain evidentiary rulings.

Melinda Mason, a fifteen-year old runaway, testified at trial that defendant Holliday, a former police officer, picked her up in his van as she was hitchhiking in Miami, drove her to his houseboat and raped her. Miss Mason testified that...

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