Tice v. State, 88-00410
| Decision Date | 09 November 1990 |
| Docket Number | No. 88-00410,88-00410 |
| Parties | 15 Fla. L. Weekly D2748 Gregory Joel TICE, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee. |
| Court | Florida District Court of Appeals |
James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Stephen Krosschell, Asst. Public Defender, Bartow, for appellant.
Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Katherine V. Blanco, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for appellee.
Gregory Joel Tice appeals his conviction for resisting an officer with violence. We reverse the conviction because he did not receive his requested instruction on resisting an officer without violence, which is the next lesser-included offense under the evidence in this case.
On July 9, 1987, Mr. Tice and his wife had an argument while they were at the home of Mr. Tice's mother in Eloise, Florida. Mrs. Tice returned to the couple's home in Eagle Lake, Florida, leaving the couple's two young children with Mr. Tice. When she arrived home, Mrs. Tice called a counselor for HRS and told the counselor that the children were without food.
The HRS counselor and a deputy sheriff went to the house in Eloise to check on the children. The testimony concerning the events at the house that evening includes at least two sharply contrasting versions. All parties agree that a backup deputy subsequently arrived at the scene. The deputies basically testified that Mr. Tice attacked the backup deputy as the backup deputy was helping the HRS counselor take custody of the children. Mr. Tice testified that the backup deputy attacked him when he merely approached his baby and the HRS counselor.
Mr. Tice was arrested and charged with battery of a law enforcement officer. §§ 784.03, .07, Fla.Stat. (1985). He was also charged with resisting an officer in the lawful execution of a legal duty with violence. § 843.01, Fla. Stat. (1985). Both charges arose from the altercation with the backup deputy. At the conclusion of the evidence, defense counsel requested a jury instruction on resisting an officer without violence. § 843.02, Fla. Stat. (1985). The trial court did not give the instruction because the lesser-included offense was not a category one necessarily lesser-included offense. Defense counsel argued, without success, that the evidence supported the instruction as a category two lesser-included offense. Ultimately, the jury was instructed only on resisting an officer with violence and battery of a law enforcement officer. Interestingly, the jury returned a verdict of guilty on the resisting charge and not guilty on the battery charge.
Although resisting an officer without violence is not a necessarily lesser-included offense of resisting an officer with violence, it may become a lesser-included offense depending upon the allegations of the charging document and the proof presented at trial. Ferrell v. State, 544...
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