Court Opinion

ID: 7479611
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-29 03:53:49.30212+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:22:58.067511
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PEARSON, Judge
(dissenting).
I am convinced that a careful reading of Brown v. State, Fla.1968, 206 So.2d 377; State v. Anderson, Fla.1972, 270 So.2d 353; and Gilford v. State, Fla.1975, 313 So.2d 729, requires reversal of this cause for a new trial. The jury manifested a desire to find the defendant guilty of a lesser included offense by not finding the defendant guilty as charged. The offense of aggravated assault was, in my view of the evidence, both a necessarily included offense and one supported by the evidence.