Lawshea v. State

NORTHCUTT, Judge.

Gordon Lawshea appeals his convictions for panhandling, resisting arrest without violence, and resisting arrest with violence. For the following reasons, we reverse Lawshea’s convictions for panhandling and resisting without violence, but we affirm his conviction for resisting with violence.

The charges against Lawshea had their genesis in a Sarasota shopkeeper’s telephone call to the police to complain that *605Lawshea was panhandling in the vicinity of his store. At Lawshea’s trial, the shopkeeper testified that he told the police that he heard Lawshea asking passers-by for…