Crossley v. State

HATCHETT, Justice.

This appeal is taken from a judgment of conviction entered in the Circuit Court, Tenth Judicial Circuit.1 Appellant Cross-ley, defendant below, raised the question of the constitutionality of the statute under which he was charged, by timely filing a motion to dismiss the information.2 The trial court explicitly rejected his contention that the statute was unconstitutional, in a written order denying the motion to dismiss. Because the trial court “initially and directly pass[ed] on the validity of a state statute," Florida Constitution, art. V § 3(b)(1) (1975), we have…