Case Name: Betty REESE, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1984-07-11
Citations: 452 So. 2d 1079
Docket Number: No. 82-2015
Parties: Betty REESE, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: HURLEY and WALDEN, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 452
Pages: 1079–1082

Head Matter:
Betty REESE, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 82-2015.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
July 11, 1984.
As Corrected July 25, 1984.
Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender, and Anthony Calvello, Asst. Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.
Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Russell S. Bohn, Asst. Atty. Gen., West Palm Beach, for appellee.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Affirmed. Although we affirm appellant's conviction and sentence for aggravated battery, we join our sister court, the First District, in certifying the following issue as one of great public importance:
If the state has the burden to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a defendant was sane at the time of the offense when the defense of insanity has been raised, is the giving of the present insanity instruction, as set forth in Standard Jury Instruction 3.04(b), along with the general reasonable doubt instruction sufficient, notwithstanding the defendant having specifically requested the court to instruct the jury that the state must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant was sane at the time of the offense?
See Yohn v. State, 450 So.2d 898 (Fla. 1st DCA 1984).
HURLEY and WALDEN, JJ., concur.
ANSTEAD, C.J., concurs in part and dissents in part with opinion.