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WILCHER v. STATE

No. 87-430.

524 So.2d 1105 (1988)

Earsley WILCHER, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

May 10, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender, and Robert Kalter, Sp. Asst. Public Defender, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., and Richard L. Kaplan, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

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

FERGUSON, Judge.

Under the rationale of Carawan v. State, 515 So.2d 161 (Fla. 1987), discharging a firearm in public, section 790.15, Florida Statutes (1987), is the same offense as shooting a deadly missile into an occupied vehicle, section 790.19, Florida Statutes (1987). As in Carawan the two statutes were enacted to remedy the same evil. Because double jeopardy principles prohibit multiple punishment for the same...

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