Manly v. State

STEVENSON, Judge.

Appellant, Patti Manly, appeals her judgment and sentence for resisting arrest with violence and battery on a law enforcement officer. Because the trial court erred in admitting collateral crime testimony prohibited by the Williams rule, we reverse. Williams v. State, 110 So.2d 654 (Fla.1959).

We agree with appellant that the trial court committed reversible error when it allowed a minor child to testify over objection that sometime before trial, appellant called him on the telephone and threatened *143him. The child’s exact testimony was, “she told me [that] if she went to jail…