Case ID: so2d_366/html/0498-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "PER CURIAM.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Arthur John ORMANIAN, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
    No. 77-1792.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.
    Jan. 17, 1979.
    Jack 0. Johnson, Public Defender, and David Wm. Boone, Asst. Public Defender, Bartow, for appellant.
    Robert L. Shevin, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Robert J. Landry, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for appellee.
   PER CURIAM.

We affirm the judgment of the trial court; However, we remand the case with directions that the trial court amend the sentence, awarding appellant credit for the time he spent in a state hospital as a mentally disordered sex offender. Section 917.218, Florida Statutes (1977); Hall v. State, 358 So.2d 891 (Fla.2d DCA 1978). Appellant need not be present for this purpose.

GRIMES, C. J., and HOBSON and RYDER, JJ., concur.