WOOTEN v. STATE

No. 84-1438.

464 So.2d 640 (1985)

Albert WOOTEN, a/K/a Alberto D. Wooten, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

March 5, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender and Henry H. Harnage, Asst. Public Defender, for appellant.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen. and Charles M. Fahlbusch, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

Before BARKDULL, HUBBART and DANIEL S. PEARSON, JJ.


DANIEL S. PEARSON, Judge.

Wooten, a black journeyman carpenter, was charged with attempted second-degree murder and found guilty of simple battery by a jury. The alleged victim was George Horton, a white ironworker, who at the time of the crime was working with Wooten on the thirteenth floor level of a construction project. Shortly before the incident which gave rise to the charge, Horton yelled at a black laborer and warned him that if he interfered with Horton's...

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