State v. Law

OWEN, WILLIAM C., Jr. (Retired), Associate Judge.

Fred C. Law was charged by information with four counts of grand theft of the second degree. Following a jury verdict of guilty as to the first three counts, the trial court granted Mr. Law’s motion in arrest of judgment on the grounds that the information upon which Mr. Law was tried is so defective that it will not support a judgment of conviction. We reverse.

In Martinez v. State, 368 So.2d 338 (Fla.1978), the court was faced with a challenge to the sufficiency of the charging information. Succinctly setting forth the standards by which the…