Case Name: Hiram Jerome MITCHELL, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1992-12-08
Citations: 611 So. 2d 1269
Docket Number: No. 92-721
Parties: Hiram Jerome MITCHELL, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: Before HUBBART, BASKIN and GODERICH, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 611
Pages: 1269–1270

Head Matter:
Hiram Jerome MITCHELL, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 92-721.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
Dec. 8, 1992.
Rehearing Denied Feb. 23, 1993.
Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender, and Louis K. Nicholas II, Special Asst. Public Defender, for appellant.
Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., and Scott Stoloff, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee,
Before HUBBART, BASKIN and GODERICH, JJ.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
This is an appeal by the defendant Hiram Jerome Mitchell from a judgment of conviction and sentence for aggravated assault with an automobile on a law enforcement officer. We affirm.
First, we find no merit in the defendant's point that the trial court erred in denying the defendant's motion for judgment of acquittal. We conclude that the testimony adduced at trial by the law enforcement officer-complainant in this case, if believed, was sufficient to sustain a conviction for aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer. § 784.07, Fla.Stat. (1991); State v. Law, 559 So.2d 187 (Fla.1989); Lynch v. State, 293 So.2d 44, 45 (Fla.1974); Busch v. State, 466 So.2d 1075, 1079 (Fla. 3d DCA 1984).
Second, we find no merit in the balance of the defendant's points on appeal, (a) The trial court properly allowed the state to exercise a peremptory challenge on two black jurors because a race-neutral, non-pretextual reason was given by thé state for striking these jurors. State v. Slappy, 522 So.2d 18 (Fla.), cert. denied, 487 U.S. 1219, 108 S.Ct, 2873, 101 L.Ed.2d 909 (1988); McNair v. State, 579 So.2d 264 (Fla. 2d DCA 1991). (b) The trial court properly admitted the testimony of the complainant-law enforcement' officer that had he not jumped out of the way, the defendant would have struck him with the car which the defendant was driving directly at him. § 90.701(1), Fla.Stat. (1991); Floyd v. State, 569 So.2d 1225, 1231-32 (Fla.1990), cert. denied, — U.S.-, 111 S.Ct. 2912, 115 L.Ed.2d 1075 (1991); Kersey v. State, 73 Fla. 832, 74 So. 983 (1917). (c) The prosecutor's unobjected-to comments to the jury in final argument do not present fundamental error. Pope v. Wainwright, 496 So.2d 798, 802 (Fla.1986), cert. denied, 480 U.S. 951, 107 S.Ct. 1617, 94 L.Ed.2d 801 (1987); State v. Cumbie, 380 So.2d 1031 (Fla.1980).
Affirmed.