Charles v. State

The state charged appellant with one count of sexual battery and one count of fraudulently using a credit card. The charges stemmed from an incident which took place on January 1, 2008, when appellant sexually battered a woman, took her credit card, and hours later used the credit card to purchase gasoline. Although we hold that there was no error in the denial of a motion to sever the two charges, we reverse because of the erroneous admission of a police detective’s opinion testimony relating to a video, which invaded the province of the jury to draw its own conclusion about whether…