GOODWIN v. STATE

No. 97-00110.

717 So.2d 561 (1998)

Jim Alger GOODWIN, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

July 24, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Tosha Cohen, Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Anne E. Sheer, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee.


PARKER, Chief Judge.

Jim Alger Goodwin appeals the judgment adjudicating him guilty of aggravated battery after a jury trial. Of the two issues raised by Goodwin, we agree that the trial court committed reversible error by failing to give a proper jury instruction to a deadlocked jury.

Shortly after the jury retired to deliberate this case, the jurors reached an impasse. impasse.1 The...

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