ZEIGLER v. STATE

No. 2D07-5300.

18 So.3d 1239 (2009)

Merle Frances ZEIGLER, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

October 9, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Joseph C. Bodiford, Special Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellant.

Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Marilyn Muir Beccue, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee.


VILLANTI, Judge.

Merle Frances Zeigler appeals her conviction and sentence for second-degree murder, contending that the trial court committed fundamental error when it gave the standard jury instruction on the lesser-included offense of manslaughter by act because that instruction, as it existed at the time of Zeigler's trial, improperly set out the intent required for a conviction for that offense. In support of her argument, she relies on the recent decision in...

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