ROYAL v. STATE

No. 65720.

490 So.2d 44 (1986)

Linda Gayle ROYAL, et al., Petitioners, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Florida.

June 26, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James B. Gibson, Public Defender and Larry B. Henderson, Asst. Public Defender, Seventh Judicial Circuit, Daytona Beach, for petitioners.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen. and Richard B. Martell, Asst. Atty. Gen., Daytona Beach, for respondent.


OVERTON, Justice.

This is a petition to review Royal v. State, 452 So.2d 1098 (Fla. 5th DCA 1984), in which the Fifth District Court of Appeal held that petitioners, who employed force while fleeing a retail store after committing a theft, were properly convicted of robbery. We find conflict with Montsdoca v. State, 84 Fla. 82, 93 So. 157 (1922).1 We quash the district court decision...

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