STATE v. CAMPBELL

No. 83-2459.

452 So.2d 1095 (1984)

STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Larry Wayne CAMPBELL, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

July 11, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and James H. Dysart, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for appellant.

Jerry Hill, Public Defender, Bartow, and Douglas S. Connor, Asst. Public Defender, Tampa, for appellee.


LEHAN, Judge.

This case involves the novel question of whether the placing of a case on an "absentee docket" and the failure to thereafter refile an information against defendant before trial deprived the trial court of jurisdiction at defendant's trial. The able trial court, after giving obviously careful consideration to the matter, dismissed the case for lack of jurisdiction. However, we conclude that we must reverse.

Defendant contends that the practice...

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