Case Name: Bobby FALAGAN, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1972-10-04
Citations: 267 So. 2d 109
Docket Number: No. 72-303
Parties: Bobby FALAGAN, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: LILES and MANN, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 267
Pages: 109–110

Head Matter:
Bobby FALAGAN, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 72-303.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.
Oct. 4, 1972.
W. Daniel Kearney, Asst. Public Defender, Bradenton, for appellant; Bobby Fala-gan, pro se.
Robert L. Shevin, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Charles Corees, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for appellee.

Opinion:
PIERCE, Chief Judge.
In this case appellant Bobby Falagan appeals to this Court from an order denying a motion to vacate a previous judgment and sentence entered against Falagan in said Court pursuant to an adverse trial, sentence of conviction, and adjudication of guilt entered in the trial Court on July 1, 1970, upon the charge as contained in the information. The sole assignment of error is that the trial Court should have ordered an evi-dentiary hearing upon the motion. We agree with the trial Court and affirm.
The information charged Falagan with the offense of armed robbery. Pursuant to 'the adverse verdict, he was sentenced to life imprisonment. Upon his post-conviction motion for relief he contends that he was entitled to have a jury instruction at his trial upon the lesser-included offense of larceny. But such contention is foreclosed to Falagan through a post-conviction proceeding because it is a matter which was or could have been raised on direct appeal, after being first duly presented to the trial Court and obtaining ruling thereon. Culberson v. State, Fla.App.1969, 224 So.2d 363; Roberts v. State, Fla.App.1970, 242 So.2d 191; Peterson v. State, Fla.App.1970, 237 So.2d 223.
The order appealed denying the motion to vacate the judgment and sentence is therefore—
Affirmed.
LILES and MANN, JJ., concur.