CARL L. BALLARD, APPELLANT,
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Fla. 2d DCA | 1984-04-06
No. 83-46
OTT, C.J., and SCHOONOVER, J., concur.
447 So. 2d 1040 Florida District Court of Appeal, Second District (1984) Negative Treatment
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Opinion of the Court
LEHAN, Judge.

LEHAN, Judge.

Defendant appeals from his conviction for shooting into an occupied dwelling in violation of section 790.19, Florida Statutes (1981), contending that the trial court erred in denying his motion to dismiss the charge. We affirm. In denying the motion to dismiss, the trial court disagreed with Golden v. State, 120 So. 2d 651 (Fla. 1st DCA 1960). We agree with the trial court that on a motion to dismiss the element of wantonly shooting at or into a building is not negated by the pleaded facts that defendant fired at a man who was in front of the building. “Wantonly” does not require that the building be the target.

AFFIRMED.

OTT, C.J., and SCHOONOVER, J., concur.


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    …Affirming the denial of a motion to dismiss, the district court held that “the element of wantonly shooting at or into a building is not negated by the pleaded facts that defendant fired at a man who was in front of the building.” Ballard v. State, 447 So. 2d 1040, 1041 (Fla. 2d DCA 1984). That is, “ ‘[wjantonly’ does not require that the building be the target.” Id. Then, in Skinner v. State, 450 So. 2d 595, 595-96 (Fla. 5th DCA 1984), the Fifth District, with Judge Cowart now writing for the majority, used…
  • Polite v. State, 454 So. 2d 769 (Fla. 1st DCA 1984)
    …cts with a wanton or malicious attitude directed toward an individual within or near the vehicle or structure. See also Skinner v. State, 450 So. 2d 595 (Fla.5th DCA 1984), petition for review filed, Case No. 65,510; see generally, Ballard v. State, 447 So. 2d 1040 (Fla.2d DCA 1984). In the circumstances of the present case appellant’s convictions for both battery and throwing a missile at an occupied vehicle could therefore be predicated on the single act of hurling a brick which struck an individual within…
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