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Beatty v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District
Sep 4, 1986
500 So. 2d 173 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1986)

Opinion

No. BF-49.

July 31, 1986. Rehearing Denied September 4, 1986.

Appeal from the Circuit Court, Alachua County, Chester B. Chance, J.

Terry P. Lewis, Sp. Asst. Public Defender, Tallahassee, for appellant.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., and John W. Tiedemann, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, for appellee.


After complete review of the record, we find no error in the trial court's denial of the motion for judgment of acquittal.

The giving of an instruction on circumstantial evidence is discretionary with the trial judge. There was no abuse of discretion in the trial judge's refusal to give the defendant's requested special jury instruction number 4 on circumstantial evidence.

The trial judge did not err in refusing to give an instruction calling for rigid scrutiny of the prosecutrix' testimony in a sexual battery case. Marr v. State, 470 So.2d 703 (Fla. 1st DCA 1985).

AFFIRMED.

SMITH, WENTWORTH and BARFIELD, JJ., concur.


Summaries of

Beatty v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District
Sep 4, 1986
500 So. 2d 173 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1986)
Case details for

Beatty v. State

Case Details

Full title:STAN RICHARD BEATTY, APPELLANT, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Court:District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District

Date published: Sep 4, 1986

Citations

500 So. 2d 173 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1986)

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