WATSON v. STATE

No. 98-3351.

732 So.2d 469 (1999)

Esau WATSON, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

May 19, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter Grable, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

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


PER CURIAM.

The trial court erred when it denied appellant's motion to amend his motion for post-conviction relief as untimely filed. In Bradford v. State, 701 So.2d 899 (Fla. 4th DCA 1997), we held:

[W]hile the amended motion was not untimely in the jurisdictional sense, it was untimely from the standpoint of judicial administration since it was first presented at the evidentiary hearing. Nevertheless, in this circumstance...

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