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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Hikim SHABAZZ, a/k/a Owen X. Denson, Jr., Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
    Nos. 77-693, 77-811 to 77-828.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.
    Feb. 14, 1979.
    
      Jack 0. Johnson, Public Defender, Paul C. Helm, and David S. Bergdoll, Asst. Public Defenders, Bartow, for appellant.
    Hikim Shabazz, pro se.
    Robert L. Shevin, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and William I. Munsey, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for appellee.
   PER CURIAM.

The judgments appealed are affirmed, but case nos. 77-693 (cir.ct.no. 77-120) and 77-815 (cir.ct.no. 77-805) are remanded for resentencing.

In case no. 77-693 the trial court imposed only a single sentence on two separate counts of carrying a concealed firearm. This is a general sentence, which is no longer proper and may not be imposed by a trial court. Dorfman v. State, 351 So.2d 954 (Fla.1977); Darden v. State, 306 So.2d 581 (Fla.2d DCA 1975); Darden v. State, 330 So.2d 750 (Fla.2d DCA 1976). That sentence is therefore vacated and that case remanded for entry of a separate sentence on each count.

In case no. 77-815 appellant was sentenced to 15 years for uttering a forged instrument. That offense is a third degree felony, § 831.02, Fla.Stat. (1975), punishable by a maximum prison sentence of five years, § 775.082(3)(d), Fla.Stat. (1975). This sentence is therefore vacated and that case remanded for imposition of a sentence within the legal maximum. Appellant is entitled to be present at resentencing.

Remanded for resentencing in two of the cases; otherwise affirmed.

OTT, Acting C. J., and RYDER and DANAHY, JJ., concur.