STATE v. SANDERS

No. 95-03608.

682 So.2d 593 (1996)

STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Jonah Carlos SANDERS, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Rehearing Denied November 19, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Erica M. Raffel, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellant.

William G. Dayton, Dade City, for Appellee.


PARKER, Acting Chief Judge.

The state seeks review of the trial court's order granting Sanders' motion to dismiss a charge of carrying a concealed firearm. We reverse because the state satisfied its burden in filing a traverse that disputed Sanders' assertion that he had no knowledge of the presence of the firearm.

Although the record is not clear, it appears undisputed that when the officers approached Sanders' illegally parked pickup truck, they saw Sanders...

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