Weston v. State

452 So.2d 95 (1984)

Joseph WESTON, Appellant,

v.

STATE of Florida, Appellee.

No. AS-470.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

May 31, 1984.

Michael Allen, Public Defender, and Charlene V. Edwards, Asst. Public Defender, for appellant.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., and John W. Tiedemann, Asst. Atty. Gen. for appellee.

NIMMONS, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of grand theft of merchandise from a department store. He complains that the trial court erred in overruling his objections to the state's eliciting from the arresting officer the fact that Weston gave him a false name, "James Dotson," when…