BARRITT v. STATE

No. BQ-44.

517 So.2d 65 (1987)

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

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

December 15, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael E. Allen, Public Defender and P. Douglas Brinkmeyer, Asst. Public Defender, Tallahassee, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., and Royall P. Terry, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, for appellee.


JOANOS, Judge.

Anthony Barritt appeals the order of final judgment and sentence in which he was adjudged guilty of vehicular homicide and leaving the scene of an accident involving death. He argues that the trial court erred in denying his requested jury instruction on reckless driving as a necessarily lesser included offense of vehicular homicide. We agree and reverse.

On May 30, 1986, appellant was driving west bound toward Gainesville in his Ford Ranger...

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