Case Name: Frank ARMENIA, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent
Court: Florida Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1986-10-02
Citations: 497 So. 2d 638
Docket Number: No. 68039
Parties: Frank ARMENIA, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent.
Judges: McDonald, C.J., and ADKINS, OVER-TON, EHRLICH and SHAW, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 497
Pages: 638–640

Head Matter:
Frank ARMENIA, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent.
No. 68039.
Supreme Court of Florida.
Oct. 2, 1986.
Rehearing Denied Dec. 5, 1986.
James B. Gibson, Public Defender, Seventh Judicial Circuit and Michael L. O’Neill, Asst. Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for petitioner.
Jim Smith, Atty. Gen. and Margene A. Roper, Asst. Atty. Gen., Daytona Beach, for respondent.

Opinion:
BARKETT, Justice.
We have for review Armenia v. State, 479 So.2d 260 (Fla. 6th DCA 1985). The Fifth District Court of Appeal certified the following question as being of great public importance:
IS IT NECESSARY TO PROVE THAT THERE WAS A CAUSAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE MANNER OF OPERATION OF DEFENDANT'S MOTOR VEHICLE OR HIS INABILITY TO AVOID THE ACCIDENT BECAUSE OF HIS INTOXICATION AND THE DEATH OF THE VICTIM TO CONVICT FOR A VIOLATION OF SECTION 816.-1931, FLORIDA STATUTES (1983)?
Id. at 263. We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(4), Fla.Const.
The decision of this Court in Baker v. State, 377 So.2d 17 (Fla.1979), answers the certified question in the negative. Nothing has occurred since Baker which would warrant receding from that case. Accordingly, we answer the certified question in the negative and approve the decision below.
It is so ordered.
McDonald, C.J., and ADKINS, OVER-TON, EHRLICH and SHAW, JJ., concur.
BOYD, J., dissents with an opinion.