BARBER v. STATE

No. 81-1215.

413 So.2d 482 (1982)

Anthony BARBER, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

May 7, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerry Hill, Public Defender, Bartow, and Eula Tuttle Mason, Asst. Public Defender, St. Petersburg, for appellant.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Robert J. Landry, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for appellee.


GRIMES, Acting Chief Judge.

In this case we must decide whether a jury verdict of guilty without an adjudication of guilt constitutes a conviction for purposes of impeachment.

During his trial for second degree robbery, appellant, under advice of counsel, testified on direct examination that he had no prior convictions. However, one week earlier another jury had returned a guilty verdict against him in a felony case although the court had not yet adjudicated...

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