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Handy v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District
Nov 10, 1994
643 So. 2d 1143 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1994)

Opinion

No. 94-0029.

September 28, 1994. Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied November 10, 1994.

Appeal from the Circuit Court for St. Lucie County, Dwight L. Geiger, J.

Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender, and Tanja Ostapoff, Asst. Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Michelle A. Konig, Asst. Atty. Gen., West Palm Beach, for appellee.


Appellant challenges his sentence alleging several errors in the calculation of his scoresheet. Although errors were committed, we find that the recalculation will not change his sentence. We specifically reject his challenge to the victim injury points added to his sentence for slight injury, as the victim received a headache from the blow inflicted by appellant which lasted a significant period of time. We conclude that this constitutes physical trauma. Nowhere do the rules or statutes require such trauma to be externally visible. Cf. Audano v. State, 641 So.2d 1356, 1361 (Fla. 2d DCA 1994).

We reverse, however, the imposition of 70 hours of community service as a condition of community control. This condition was not orally pronounced at sentencing. See Crawford v. State, 616 So.2d 1158 (Fla. 2d DCA 1993). The state concedes the error.

Affirmed in part; reversed in part.

HERSEY, WARNER and KLEIN, JJ., concur.


Summaries of

Handy v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District
Nov 10, 1994
643 So. 2d 1143 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1994)
Case details for

Handy v. State

Case Details

Full title:SAMUEL LAMARUS HANDY, APPELLANT, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Court:District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District

Date published: Nov 10, 1994

Citations

643 So. 2d 1143 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1994)