SHORES v. STATE

No. 99-1149.

756 So.2d 114 (2000)

Michael Louis SHORES, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

January 5, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender, and Gary Caldwell, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Myra J. Fried, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.


KLEIN, J.

Appellant was convicted of burglary of a dwelling. The only evidence linking him to the burglary was one of his fingerprints on a box of ammunition in a drawer which had been ransacked by the burglar. We conclude that the trial court should have granted a judgment of acquittal.

The state's evidence reflected that a home had been burglarized and things taken from the living room and each of two bedrooms. In one of the bedrooms a drawer in a night...

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