Williams v. State

ZEHMER, Judge.

Appellant appeals his conviction of battery of a correctional officer while an inmate at the Union Correctional Institution. He contends that the trial court erroneously denied his challenges for cause of two correctional officers of that and a related penal institution called as prospective jurors in the trial of his case. We reverse on the authority of Irby v. State, 436 So.2d 1047 (Fla. 1st DCA 1983).

The disputed issues in this ease turned on the credibility of the correction officers involved in the altercation with appellant and the credibility of appellant and his fellow…