WOOD v. STATE

No. 5D05-3308.

944 So.2d 1172 (2006)

Chad Adrian WOOD, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

December 15, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul E. Bross, of Bross, Bross, Thomas & Mays, LC., Merritt Island, for Appellant.

Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Rebecca Roark Wall, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellee.


PLEUS, C.J.

The defendant appeals from his conviction and sentence for sexual battery on a person less than 12 years of age by a person 18 years of age or older. He raises two points, neither of which we find meritorious.

First, the trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying the defendant's motion for a continuance made after the State, on the eve of trial, was permitted to add as a witness the victim's mother, whose recent whereabouts were just discovered...

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