Legal Opinion

Paulk v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided May 28, 1993No. 92-1085Published

1Opinion of the Court

COBB, Judge.

The appellant, Marcus Paulk, who was convicted as a principal of two counts of attempted murder and one count of shooting within a building, contends the trial court should not have given a jury instruction on flight, and cites the recent case of Fenelon v. State, 594 So.2d 292 (Fla.1992), wherein the supreme court disapproved the *796instruction as constituting a judicial comment upon the evidence.

The state contends, and we agree, that the objection that the flight instruction was an improper comment upon the evidence was not presented to the court; hence it has not been preserved…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. State v. DiGuilioSupreme Court of Florida · 1986
  2. Steinhorst v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1982
  3. Jackson v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1991
  4. Fenelon v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1992
  5. Thomas v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1983

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