Pope v. State

(specially concurring).

Pope was the alleged “wheelman” for two other co-perpetrators who personally committed an armed robbery during which the victim was pistol-whipped. He was charged with and acquitted of the two substantive charges of armed robbery and aggravated battery, but convicted of one count of conspiracy to commit armed robbery.1

There is no problem in rejecting the contention that there was no evidence to support the conspiracy conviction or that it was legally inconsistent with the favorable verdicts on the substantive charges. See Corbo v. State, 347 So.2d 133, 134 (Fla. 3d DCA…