Case Name: Nathaniel WALKER, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1977-04-15
Citations: 345 So. 2d 780
Docket Number: No. 75-983
Parties: Nathaniel WALKER, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: ALDERMAN and LETTS, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 345
Pages: 780–780

Head Matter:
Nathaniel WALKER, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 75-983.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
April 15, 1977.
Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender, and Henry Prettyman, Sp. Asst. Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.
Robert L. Shevin, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Anthony C. Musto, Asst. Atty. Gen., West Palm Beach, for appellee.

Opinion:
DAUKSCH, Judge.
Defendant-Appellant was convicted on a jury verdict of the misdemeanor of resisting arrest without violence after having been tried for the higher offense of resisting arrest with violence. The Defendant was sentenced to serve the maximum amount of time in jail, one year, and was placed on probation for a period of three years after he had served three months of the said jail term. An illegal sentence. Holmes v. State, 343 So.2d 632, Fla.4th DCA, Opinion filed February 11, 1977; State v. Jones, 327 So.2d 18 (Fla.1976); Moore v. State, 324 So.2d 690 (Fla.1st DCA 1976); Watts v. State, 328 So.2d 223 (Fla.2d DCA 1976); Magnin v. State, 334 So.2d 638 (Fla.2d DCA 1976).
The sentence is modified to reduce the period of probation from three years to nine months.
The Judgment and Sentence are AFFIRMED AS MODIFIED.
ALDERMAN and LETTS, JJ., concur.