Case Name: Harold Edward PELHAM, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1992-03-25
Citations: 595 So. 2d 581
Docket Number: No. 90-02379
Parties: Harold Edward PELHAM, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: CAMPBELL and ALTENBERND, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 595
Pages: 581–582

Head Matter:
Harold Edward PELHAM, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 90-02379.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.
March 25, 1992.
James Marion Moorman, Public Defender and Stephen Krosschell, Asst. Public Defender, Bartow, for appellant.
Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Charles Corees, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for appellee.

Opinion:
RYDER, Acting Chief Judge.
Harold Edward Pelham seeks review of the judgment and sentence entered on a jury verdict finding him guilty of robbery with a deadly weapon, grand theft auto, kidnapping, sexual battery and sexual battery with a deadly weapon. Appellant's convictions are affirmed.
However, appellant was sentenced as a habitual offender for the conviction of sexual battery with a deadly weapon which is a life felony. § 794.011(3), Fla.Stat. (1989). Because life felonies are not subject to habitual offender enhancement, Burdick v. State, 594 So.2d 267 (Fla.1992); Leaty v. State, 590 So.2d 512 (Fla. 2d DCA 1991); Lock v. State, 582 So.2d 819 (Fla. 2d DCA 1991), it was error to check the "habitual offender" box on the sentence form. Ac cordingly, the case is remanded to the trial court for correction of this scrivener's error. See Power v. State, 568 So.2d 511 (Fla. 5th DCA 1990). Appellant's sentence is otherwise affirmed.
Affirmed, but remanded.
CAMPBELL and ALTENBERND, JJ., concur.