DAKES v. STATE

No. 88-2387.

545 So.2d 939 (1989)

Willie Earl DAKES, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied July 28, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender, and Joseph C. Brock, Sp. Asst. Public Defender, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., and Jorge Espinosa, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

Before NESBITT, BASKIN and GERSTEN, JJ.


BASKIN, Judge.

Willie Earl Dakes entered the storeroom of a retail store during business hours and placed several hundred dollars worth of merchandise in a shopping bag. At the time Dakes entered the storeroom, the door leading to the room was unlocked; however, on the door were posted two signs: "authorized personnel only" and "associates only." Dakes was apprehended immediately upon leaving the store and was charged and convicted of burglary of an occupied structure...

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