Strickland v. State
Decision Date | 21 February 1984 |
Docket Number | No. AT-224,AT-224 |
Citation | 447 So.2d 322 |
Parties | Jacky B. STRICKLAND, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee. |
Court | Florida District Court of Appeals |
C. Richard Parker, Asst. Public Defender, for appellant.
Jim Smith, Atty. Gen. and Wallace E. Allbritton, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.
Appellant was charged in the same information with one count of grand theft in excess of $20,000.00, sixty-five counts of forgery and sixty-five counts of uttering forged instruments. Those charges stemmed from sixty-five purported contracts for the purchase of World Book Encyclopedias. In presenting its case, the state made extensive use during trial of several large charts which detailed the false information contained in each contract and related those contracts to the various charges for which appellant was being tried. Although the contracts themselves, along with other documentary evidence, were properly admitted into evidence, the charts were used for demonstrative purposes only and were not offered into evidence.
During its deliberations on twenty of the forgery counts and the one grand theft count that had been permitted to go to the jury, the jury informed the court it was having difficulty determining which counts corresponded to the various alleged customers who had testified during trial. To aid them in reaching a verdict, they requested to be allowed to take with them into the jury room the state's charts. That request was granted over defense objections, and eventually appellant was found guilty of grand theft of less than $20,000.00 and of only one count of forgery. Appellant contends the court erred in allowing the jury to use the non-admitted charts prepared by the state. We disagree and affirm.
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