Case Name: Amos John SLOAN, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1975-12-10
Citations: 323 So. 2d 278
Docket Number: No. 75-287
Parties: Amos John SLOAN, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: McNULTY, C. J., concurs.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 323
Pages: 278–279

Head Matter:
Amos John SLOAN, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 75-287.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.
Dec. 10, 1975.
John C. Lenderman, St. Petersburg, for appellant.
Robert L. Shevin, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Davis G. Anderson, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for appellee.

Opinion:
SCHEB, Judge.
The defendant, Amos John Sloan, was convicted of robbery and two counts of aggravated assault. He was sentenced to life imprisonment on the conviction of robbery and to five years imprisonment on each of the aggravated assault charges, with all sentences to run consecutively.
We have examined the record and briefs and find the only question on appeal which merits discussion is whether the trial court erred in sentencing the defendant on the convictions of aggravated assault in addition to the sentence for the crime of robbery.
The victim of the robbery was one Guinevere Bulatowicz. She was assaulted by the defendant with a baseball bat during the commission of the robbery. This assault being the force involved in the robbery merged into and became part of the offense of robbery. Hernandez v. State, Fla.App.2d 1973, 278 So.2d 307. Not so as to the assault upon Richard Mitchell who was at the scene of the robbery and was also assaulted by the defendant with the baseball bat. This assault having been perpetrated against a different victim obviously did not merge into the robbery, nor was it part of the same transaction as the robbery merely because the two crimes were committed contemporaneously. Ellis v. State, Fla.App.2d 1974, 298 So.2d 527; Harris v. State, Fla.App.2d 1973, 286 So.2d 32.
Accordingly, the judgment and sentence of the defendant for robbery are affirmed. The judgment and sentence for aggravated assault upon Guinevere Bulatowicz are vacated; and the judgment and sentence for aggravated assault on Robert Mitchell are affirmed.
McNULTY, C. J., concurs.
BOARDMAN, J., dissents in part with opinion.