CHALMERS v. STATE

No. 4D00-1831.

789 So.2d 1057 (2001)

Torin L. CHALMERS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

June 13, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Cherry Grant, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Frank J. Ingrassia, Assistant Attorney General, Fort Lauderdale, for appellee.


STONE, J.

We affirm Chalmers' conviction of grand theft of a trailer and tools owned by Elmer Cook.

Cook, the owner of Cook Construction, testified that he had hired Chalmers to supervise a roofing job. They had an informal agreement that Chalmers would receive an allowance for labor, expenses of the job would be deducted from the overall contract amount, and the two would split the remaining profit. They also agreed that if Chalmers' labor exceeded the allowance...

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