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Eagle v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District
Dec 20, 1972
270 So. 2d 468 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1972)

Opinion

No. 72-383.

December 20, 1972.

Appeal from the Court of Record for Broward County, William Clayton Johnson, J.

Charles W. Musgrove, Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Robert L. Shevin, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Andrew I. Friedrich, Asst. Atty. Gen., West Palm Beach, for appellee.


Appellant-defendant, Ray Garrett Eagle, was charged by information with receiving stolen property, tried by jury, convicted, adjudged guilty by the court and sentenced to a term of imprisonment. Hence this appeal. The thrust of the appeal is that the judgment is defective and the imposition of sentence illegal.

The judgment failed to recite that appellant received the property with knowledge of its stolen character. Such a judgment is defective in omitting a material element of the offense as charged. Mathis v. State, 134 Fla. 352, 184 So. 89 (1938); Biesendorfer v. State, 227 So.2d 322 (Fla. App. 1969).

Accordingly, the judgment is reversed and the sentence is vacated and set aside, and the cause remanded for entry of judgment consistent with the views herein expressed and imposition of sentence as the justice of the cause shall require.

See North Carolina v. Pearce, 395 U.S. 711, 89 S.Ct. 2072, 23 L.Ed.2d 656 (1969), on reimposition of sentence.

Reversed and remanded.

WALDEN, CROSS and MAGER, JJ., concur.


Summaries of

Eagle v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District
Dec 20, 1972
270 So. 2d 468 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1972)
Case details for

Eagle v. State

Case Details

Full title:RAY GARRETT EAGLE, APPELLANT, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Court:District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District

Date published: Dec 20, 1972

Citations

270 So. 2d 468 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1972)

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