Case Name: Jerry POWERS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1969-06-17
Citations: 224 So. 2d 411
Docket Number: No. 68-1019
Parties: Jerry POWERS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: Before PEARSON, BARKDULL and SWANN, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 224
Pages: 411–413

Head Matter:
Jerry POWERS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 68-1019.
District Court of Appeal of Florida. Third District.
June 17, 1969.
Rehearing Denied July 25, 1969.
Robert L. Koeppel, Public Defender, and Gregory B. Hoppenstand, Asst. Public Defender, for appellant.
Earl Faircloth, Atty. Gen., and Harold Mendelow, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.
Before PEARSON, BARKDULL and SWANN, JJ.

Opinion:
BARKDULL, Judge.
Appellant appeals from an adverse jury verdict, judgment of conviction, and sentence thereon, after being informed against by a two-count information charging him with breaking and entering a building and grand larceny. The only point preserved for review is alleged error in the trial court refusing to permit the defendant, at the time of the trial, to call as defense witnesses two police officers who had been listed as State witnesses prior to trial.
Approximately ninety days prior to trial the State listed all the witnesses it intended to rely on at time of trial with copies to counsel which, upon the subsequent filing by counsel for the defendant of a motion for discovery, we find met the rule requiring the reciprocal listing of witnesses. Therefore, when at the time of trial the defense attempted to call two witnesses not previously listed as defense wit nesses, no abuse of discretion has been demonstrated in the trial judge's refusing to permit these witnesses to be called. Cox v. State, Fla.App.1969, 219 So.2d 762; 2 Fla.Jur., Appeals, § 326, 327; Rule 1.220 (g), Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure, 33 F.S.A.
Further, even if the denial of the right to call these witnesses had constituted an abuse of discretion, the right to consider this error was waived by the failure of the defense to proffer what the testimony of the two witnesses would have been. An appellate court is not justified in finding error on an evidentiary ruling by a trial judge when no proffer of the evidence is preserved for review. See: Boykin v. State, 40 Fla. 484, 24 So. 141; Wright v. State, 42 Fla 239, 27 So. 863; Starke v. State, 49 Fla. 41, 37 So. 850; Davis v. State, 54 Fla. 34, 44 So. 757; McCall v. State, 55 Fla. 108, 46 So. 321; Morey v. State, 72 Fla. 45, 72 So. 490; Morasso v. State, 74 Fla. 269, 76 So. 777; Matthews v. State, 130 Fla. 53, 177 So. 321.
Therefore, in view of what is stated above, we find no error in the verdict, judgment of conviction, and sentence here under review and the same be and are hereby
Affirmed.
. In time sequence, the listing of these witnesses was prior to a request by the defendant for such and would not have been effective to evoke reciprocal witness lists at the time the State originally submitted them. However, some seven days later the defense did request a list of witnesses which would activate the reciprocal provisions of Rule 1.220(e), Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure. Therefore, on the state of this record, we find the time sequence to be immaterial.