Rosier v. State

SMITH, Judge.

Appellant contends he may not be separately sentenced on five counts of manslaughter by culpable negligence because the five victims were killed in a single automobile collision, characterized by appellant as a single transaction. We cannot assent. We have upheld separate sentences for violent crimes consecutively directed against , two or more persons. Booth v. State, 332 So.2d 157 (Fla. 1st DCA 1976). We have also upheld separate sentences for violent crimes simultaneously directed toward two or more persons. Robinson v. State, 323 So.2d 62 (Fla. 1st DCA 1975). Assuming as…