St. Hilaire v. State

Full title: RENEL ST. HILAIRE, Appellant, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District

Date published: Feb 21, 2001

778 So. 2d 479 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2001)

Opinion

No. 4D99-4067.

Opinion filed February 21, 2001.

Appeal from the Circuit Court for the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Broward County; James I. Cohn, Judge; L.T. Case No. 99-1445CF10A.

Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Louis G. Carres, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Melanie Ann Dale, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.

PER CURIAM.

Affirmed. See Bentley v. State, 501 So.2d 600, 602 (Fla. 1987); Watson v. State, 437 So.2d 702, 705 (Fla. 4th DCA 1983) (stating that "the legislature did not intend to require a finding that an operable handgun be involved in order to sustain a conviction of robbery with a firearm"), modified on other grounds, 453 So.2d 810 (Fla. 1984).

STEVENSON, GROSS and HAZOURI, JJ., concur.