CRESPO v. STATE

No. 86-1458.

505 So.2d 685 (1987)

Cervelio CRESPO, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

April 21, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender, and Entin, Schwartz, Barbakoff & Schwartz and Ronald A. Dion, Sp. Asst. Public Defenders, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., and Margarita Muina Febres, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

Before HUBBART, BASKIN and FERGUSON, JJ.


BASKIN, Judge.

Defendant Crespo seeks reversal of his conviction of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. § 790.23, Fla. Stat. (1983). As grounds for reversal, he cites the trial court's inadvertent omission of the Standard Jury Instruction defining "care and custody." The omitted instruction would have defined that portion of the charge dealing with a convicted felon having in his "care, custody, possession or control, a firearm." The court had indicated...

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