SPERRY v. STATE

No. 95-0645.

671 So.2d 856 (1996)

Joseph A. SPERRY, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

April 17, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender, and Ellen Morris, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Aubin Wade Robinson, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.


STONE, Judge.

Appellant's conviction and sentence for aggravated battery are affirmed.

First, we find no error in the court's charge to the jury. The trial judge denied Appellant's request that the jury be charged that it may consider whether a witness had previously been convicted of a crime. The only basis for the requested instruction was Appellant's own testimony, on direct examination, that he had never been convicted of a crime. There is nothing in the...

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