Case Name: Keith LOUTTIT, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1985-04-09
Citations: 467 So. 2d 756
Docket Number: No. 83-2176
Parties: Keith LOUTTIT, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and FERGUSON and JORGENSON, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 467
Pages: 756–756

Head Matter:
Keith LOUTTIT, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 83-2176.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
April 9, 1985.
Rehearing Denied May 10, 1985.
Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender, and Gitlitz, Keegan & Dittmar and James D. Keegan, Sp. Asst. Public Defender, for appellant.
Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., and Calvin L. Pox, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.
Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and FERGUSON and JORGENSON, JJ.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Defendant brings this appeal from a conviction and sentence for attempted first-degree murder. He contends that the court erred in rejecting his request for an instruction on attempted manslaughter.
Where defendant was convicted of attempted first-degree murder as charged, and the jury was also instructed on attempted second-degree murder and aggravated battery as lesser included offenses, the failure to instruct on attempted manslaughter, a two-step removed lesser-included offense, was not harmful error. State v. Abreau, 363 So.2d 1063 (Fla.1978). More to the point, because there was no evidence to support an instruction on attempted manslaughter, refusal to give the instruction was correct. Fla.R.Crim.P. 3.510(b).
Affirmed.