Powell v. State

Full title: ANTHONY DARNELL POWELL, Appellant, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee.

Court: FIRST DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL STATE OF FLORIDA

Date published: Jan 27, 2021

309 So. 3d 723 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2021)

Opinion

NO. 1D20-0820

01-27-2021

Anthony Darnell POWELL, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

Jessica J. Yeary, Public Defender, and Maria Ines Suber, Assistant Public Defender, Tallahassee, for Appellant. Ashley Moody, Attorney General, and Julian E. Markham, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellee.

PER CURIAM.

Jessica J. Yeary, Public Defender, and Maria Ines Suber, Assistant Public Defender, Tallahassee, for Appellant.

Ashley Moody, Attorney General, and Julian E. Markham, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellee.

Per Curiam.

AFFIRMED . See Manuel v. State , 16 So. 3d 833, 835 (Fla. 1st DCA 2005) ("[D]irect evidence of intent is rare, and intent is usually proven through inference, ‘a trial court should rarely, if ever, grant a motion for judgment of acquittal on the issue of intent.’ ") (quoting Washington v. State , 737 So. 2d 1208, 1215 (Fla. 1st DCA 1999) ).

Rowe, Osterhaus, and Long, JJ., concur.