COPERTINO v. STATE

No. 97-2326.

726 So.2d 330 (1999)

Nicholas Frank COPERTINO, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

Rehearing Denied March 16, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Neil M. Nameroff of Neil M. Nameroff, P.A., Miami, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Don M. Rogers, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.


PER CURIAM.

Defendant appeals his conviction for five counts of manslaughter by culpable negligence and six counts of culpable negligence. We affirm.

Defendant's principal argument in favor of a judgment of acquittal is that, because speed alone is insufficient to convict of manslaughter by culpable negligence, the trial judge should have taken this case from the jury. He relies on text in Filmon v. State, 336 So.2d 586<...

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