Case Name: Stanley McCLOUD, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2014-05-30
Citations: 139 So. 3d 474
Docket Number: No. 5D09-3179
Parties: Stanley McCLOUD, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: TORPY, C.J., PALMER and LAWSON, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 139
Pages: 474–475

Head Matter:
Stanley McCLOUD, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 5D09-3179.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.
May 30, 2014.
James S. Purdy, Public Defender, and Nancy Ryan, Assistant Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for Appellant.
Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Kristen L. Davenport, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellee.

Opinion:
ON REMAND FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF FLORIDA
PER CURIAM.
This case is before us on remand from the Florida Supreme Court, which quashed our earlier decision reported at McCloud v. State, 53 So.3d 1206 (Fla. 5th DCA 2011). McCloud was charged with first-degree murder and the jury was also instructed on the lesser included offenses of second-degree murder, third-degree felony murder, and manslaughter by act. He was convicted of second-degree murder. He appealed the trial court's faulty jury instruction on manslaughter by act. In this case, the lesser included offense of manslaughter by act was two steps re moved from the second-degree murder conviction due to the inclusion of the felony murder charge in the jury instructions and on the verdict form. Accordingly, pursuant to the ruling in Haygood v. State, 109 So.3d 735 (Fla.2013), we have undertaken a harmless error analysis. See also Pena v. State, 901 So.2d 781 (Fla.2005). Based upon that analysis, we hold that the trial court's error in instructing the jury on the lesser included offense of manslaughter by act was harmless. Accordingly, we affirm McCloud's conviction and sentence for second-degree murder. See also, Daugherty v. State, 96 So.3d 1076 (Fla. 4th DCA 2012), rev. granted, No. SC13-1791, 2014 WL 1782824 (Fla.2014).
AFFIRMED.
TORPY, C.J., PALMER and LAWSON, JJ., concur.