Johnson v. State

This is an appeal by the defendant Percy Johnson from judgments of conviction and sentences for burglary of a structure, petit theft, and sexual battery with slight force, based on an adverse jury verdict. We affirm based on the following briefly stated legal analysis.

First, the trial court did not err in denying the defendant’s motion for judgment of acquittal at trial. The state presented sufficient circumstantial evidence to send this case to the jury. See Heiney v. State, 447 So.2d 210, 212 (Fla.), cert. denied, 469 U.S. 920, 105 S.Ct. 303, 83 L.Ed.2d 237 (1984); Avery v. State, 505 So.2d…