HAMPTON v. STATE

No. 88-1453.

549 So.2d 1059 (1989)

Charles W. HAMPTON, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

Rehearing Denied October 25, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender, and Jeffrey L. Anderson, Asst. Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Celia A. Terenzio, Asst. Atty. Gen., West Palm Beach, for appellee.


STONE, Judge.

We affirm the appellant's conviction of second degree murder. He asserts error in the denial of a motion for a judgment of acquittal. The appellant argues that there was only circumstantial evidence from which to infer how the shooting of his girlfriend occurred, and that the physical evidence was not inconsistent with a reasonable hypothesis of his innocence.

The defendant and the victim had been...

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