Case Name: Charles Lewis RAY, Jr., a/k/a Charles L. Ray, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1975-10-15
Citations: 320 So. 2d 426
Docket Number: No. 75-830
Parties: Charles Lewis RAY, Jr., a/k/a Charles L. Ray, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: 
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 320
Pages: 426–427

Head Matter:
Charles Lewis RAY, Jr., a/k/a Charles L. Ray, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 75-830.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.
Oct. 15, 1975.
James A. Gardner, Public Defender, Sarasota, and Douglas A. Wallace, Asst. Public Defender, Bradenton, for appellant.
Robert L. Shevin, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Robert J. Landry, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for appellee.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
This is an appeal from judgments entered upon guilty pleas for sexual battery, attempted sexual battery and breaking and entering a dwelling house with intent to commit a felony, to wit: sexual battery, and after having entered making an assault upon a woman lawfully within the dwelling house. The appellant was sentenced to fifteen years for the sexual battery. He was given concurrent five year sentences for the other two offenses to run consecutive to the fifteen year sentence.
The judgments are affirmed. The sexual battery was a different incident than those which formed the basis for the other two charges. However, the attempted sexual battery for which the appellant was convicted was an essential element of the breaking and entering charge. Therefore, the sentence for attempted sexual battery must be vacated as violating the single transaction rule. Drayton v. State, Fla.App.2d, 1975, 320 So.2d 23; Trousdale v. State, Fla.App.2d, 1974, 287 So.2d 721.
BOARDMAN, Acting C. J., and GRIMES and SCHEB, JJ., concur.