PHILIPPOUSSI v. STATE

No. 95-2466.

691 So.2d 511 (1997)

Jacqueline PHILIPPOUSSI, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

Rehearing and Certification Denied April 21, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roy Black and Howard M. Srebnick of Black, Srebnick & Kornspan, P.A., Miami, and Scott A. Srebnick, Miami, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Ettie Feistmann, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.


KLEIN, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of grand theft as a result of a transaction with an elderly woman. The charges were based on the opening of a joint bank account under circumstances in which the woman may not have realized what was happening, and the removal of funds from that account by the appellant. We reverse because the trial court failed to give a proper jury instruction on a good faith defense.

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