Johnson v. State

We affirm appellant’s convictions and sentences for three counts of perjury finding no merit in either point raised on appeal.

We write briefly on appellant’s second point regarding the submission of taped jury instructions to the jury. The Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure do not prohibit this practice and appellant’s reliance upon Woodring v. State, 448 So.2d 529 (Fla. 5th DCA), rev. denied, 456 So.2d 1182 (Fla.1984), is misplaced. In Woodring, the Fifth District reversed in a case involving this same practice where the trial court, in response to a question from the deliberating jury,…