WENDALL J. CHATMAN, APPELLANT,
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Fla. 5th DCA | 1984-11-01
No. 83-1591
COBB, C.J., and FRANK D. UP-CHURCH, Jr., J., concur., COWART, J., dissents with opinion.
458 So. 2d 86 Florida District Court of Appeal, Fifth District (1984) Positive Treatment
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Opinion of the Court
PER CURIAM.

PER CURIAM.

AFFIRMED. See Fike v. State, 455 So. 2d 628 (Fla. 5th DCA 1984).

COBB, C.J., and FRANK D. UP-CHURCH, Jr., J., concur. COWART, J., dissents with opinion.

Dissent
COWART, Judge,

COWART, Judge,

dissenting:

A criminal information must unequivocally allege the facts upon which the court’s jurisdiction is based. When the circuit court has jurisdiction over a felony charge and the county court has jurisdiction over a misdemeanor charge, an information disjunctively alleging facts charging a felony or a misdemeanor is defective and legally insufficient to invoke the jurisdiction of either court. Young v. State, 439 So. 2d 306 (Fla. 5th DCA 1983), and Nelson v. State, 398 So. 2d 920 (Fla. 5th DCA 1981), are correct. See the dissent to Fike v. State, 455 So. 2d 628 (Fla. 5th DCA 1984).

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