EVANS v. STATE

No. 97-2523.

723 So.2d 855 (1998)

Timothy Maurice EVANS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

November 25, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence Duffy of Nicoletti Duffy Poncy & Edwards, P.A., West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Joseph A. Tringali, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.


STONE, C.J.

We affirm Appellant's conviction and sentence for robbery with a weapon. The trial court did not err or abuse its discretion in admitting evidence of a collateral crime involving similar facts.

The record reflects that the seventy-two-year-old victim was entering her car in a medical center parking lot in mid-afternoon. As she began to close the door, a man grabbed her arm. He placed a very sharp object, either a screwdriver or a knife, at her...

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