WATT v. STATE

No. 4D08-3597.

31 So.3d 238 (2010)

Leon WATT, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

March 17, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Peggy Natale, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Katherine Y. Mclntire, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.


TAYLOR, J.

The defendant appeals his criminal conviction and sentence for carrying a concealed firearm. He argues that the trial court erred in admitting into evidence a letter from the Department of Agriculture indicating that he had not been granted a license to carry a concealed firearm. We agree that this was inadmissible hearsay. However, because the absence of a license was not an element of the crime, and the defendant's defense at trial was not that he had...

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