Evins v. State

BARKDULL, Senior Judge.

The defendant entered a plea of guilty to charges of robbery and battery on a law enforcement officer and was sentenced to four years of probation. He subsequently violated his probation by failing to report to his probation officer, leaving Dade County without the consent of his probation officer and committing a battery on a law enforcement officer. The trial court revoked his probation and sentenced him to three and one-half years of incarceration.

The defendant filed a rulé 3.800(a) motion1 to correct illegal sentence and alleged that his sentence was illegal because…