Legal Opinion

Fipps v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided December 11, 1989No. 89-293PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

NIMMONS, Judge.

The defendant appeals from a judgment and sentence for armed burglary. Although admitting to the burglary of the subject mini-warehouse storage units, he claims he was not armed and that the court erred in denying his motion for judgment of acquittal as to the higher degree of burglary attributable to the “armed” fea-, ture of the burglary charge. He also claims reversible error in the court’s overruling his objections to the prosecutor’s questions on cross-examination of the defendant relative to the defendant’s practice of carrying his Bible around with him. We affirm.

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2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Williams v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1988
  2. Caldwell v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1971
  3. Williams v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1987
  4. Peoples v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1983

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. State v. SmithDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1992

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