Case Name: STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Forrestine SIMS, Respondent
Court: Florida Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1998-10-15
Citations: 720 So. 2d 213
Docket Number: No. 91073
Parties: STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Forrestine SIMS, Respondent.
Judges: HARDING, C.J., and OVERTON, KOGAN, WELLS, ANSTEAD and PARIENTE, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 720
Pages: 213–214

Head Matter:
STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Forrestine SIMS, Respondent.
No. 91073.
Supreme Court of Florida.
Oct. 15, 1998.
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, James W. Rogers, Tallahassee Bureau Chief, Criminal Appeals, and Stephen R. White, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Petitioner.
Thomas G. Fallís, Jacksonville, for Respondent.

Opinion:
SHAW, Justice.
We have for review a decision of the district court that cited as controlling authority State v. Ellis, 22 Fla. L. Weekly D1298, - So.2d -, 1997 WL 268503 (Fla. 1st DCA May 22, 1997), which was then pending on review in this Court. We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(3), Fla. Const.; Jollie v. State, 405 So.2d 418 (Fla.1981).
Sims was charged with perjury for allegedly lying in a deposition concerning her role in an armed robbery. The trial court found the perjury statute, section 837.011(3), Florida Statutes (1995), unconstitutional, reasoning that the statute removes an element of the offense, i.e., materiality, from the jury's consideration. The district court denied certio-rari based on Ellis. We have since quashed Ellis. See State v. Ellis, — So.2d -, 1998 WL 716702, No. 90,729 (Fla. Oct.15, 1998).
We quash the decision under review.
It is so ordered.
HARDING, C.J., and OVERTON, KOGAN, WELLS, ANSTEAD and PARIENTE, JJ., concur.
. State v. Sims, No. 97-2193 (Fla. 1st DCA June 23, 1997).