Lawhorne v. State

NESBITT, Judge.

The defendant appeals his conviction of trespass and resisting an officer without violence. We affirm.

The sole issue on appeal is whether the trial court erred by disallowing the defendant’s attorney to question the defendant on direct examination about the specifics of six prior convictions where the defendant had just admitted the convictions in response to questions posed by defense counsel during the same direct examination. We find that the trial court did not err and that the defendant’s reliance on Noeling v. State, 40 So.2d 120 (Fla.1949), is misplaced.

In Noeling, the…