CHARLOT v. STATE

No. 95-2138.

679 So.2d 844 (1996)

Dorvil CHARLOT, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

Rehearing Denied October 3, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender, and Paul E. Petillo, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Georgina Jiminez-Oroso, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.


KLEIN, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of armed trespass, armed false imprisonment, and aggravated battery. He argues that the court erred in admitting the victim's narrative statement made to a police officer right after the incident, under the excited utterance exception to the hearsay rule. We agree, but find the error to be harmless.

According to the victim of the attack, she and the appellant had been friends for a number of years, but had not been romantically...

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