THREADGILL, Judge.
Earl Joseph Thomas was convicted by a jury of tampering with evidence, a third-degree felony, and resisting arrest without violence, a first-degree misdemeanor. He contends that the trial court erred in admitting a hearsay statement into evidence and in denying his motion for judgment of acquittal on the tampering charge. We agree and reverse.
On July 11, 1988, the Lake Wales Police Department received an anonymous phone call that there...
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