Legal Opinion

Holt v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided November 29, 1982No. AH-150PublishedCited by 2 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

MILLS, Judge.

Holt, an indigent defendant, appeals his conviction for burglary and grand theft and the trial court’s imposition of costs upon him. We affirm.

Holt contends that the trial court erred in permitting the State’s expert witness to respond to a hypothetical question which assumed facts which were not yet in evidence. This contention is without merit because sufficient facts to form the basis of the hypothetical question were established later in the trial.

It also was not error for the trial court to refuse to charge the jury separately on circumstantial evidence. Walker v. State, 414…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Jenkins v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1982
  2. Walker v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1982

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. DORBAD v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2009
  2. DORBAD v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2009

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