Case Name: Milton Leroy WOODS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1990-02-02
Citations: 556 So. 2d 493
Docket Number: No. 89-1230
Parties: Milton Leroy WOODS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: THOMPSON, ZEHMER and BARFIELD, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 556
Pages: 493–493

Head Matter:
Milton Leroy WOODS, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 89-1230.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
Feb. 2, 1990.
Nancy L. Showaiter, Asst. Public Defender, Tallahassee, for appellant.
Carolyn J. Mosley, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, for appellee.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Milton Leroy Woods was charged by information with one count of possession of cocaine, a third degree felony, and one count of resisting arrest without violence, a first degree misdemeanor. The matter proceeded to non-jury trial at the outset of which the state announced a nolle prosequi of the first count because laboratory analysis had revealed the substance thought to be cocaine was not. At this point the circuit court was divested of jurisdiction of the surviving misdemeanor charge, and erred in proceeding with the trial over Woods' objection. State v. Vazquez, 450 So.2d 203 (Fla.1984); see also Vazquez v. State, 427 So.2d 1125, 1127 (Fla. 5th DCA 1983) (J. Upchurch dissenting). Accordingly, Woods' conviction and sentence on the charge of resisting an officer without violence are reversed.
REVERSED.
THOMPSON, ZEHMER and BARFIELD, JJ., concur.