JOHNSON v. STATE

No. 89-1765.

578 So.2d 419 (1991)

Jennifer Clarise JOHNSON, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

April 18, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Sweeting, III, Orlando, Lynn Paltrow and Louise Melling, New York City, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Belle B. Turner, Asst. Atty. Gen., Daytona Beach, for appellee.


DAUKSCH, Judge.

This is an appeal from two convictions for delivery of a controlled substance to minors.

It was established by the evidence that appellant consumed cocaine knowing that the cocaine would pass to her soon-to-be-born fetus. Upon the birth of her children it was medically determined that each of them had received some of the cocaine into their bodies. A qualified witness testified that some of the cocaine left the mother and was received by the...

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