BOBBY FALAGAN, APPELLANT,
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE
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Court affirmed denial of post-conviction motion to vacate armed robbery conviction where appellant's claim about jury instructions on lesser-included offense was barred as a matter properly raised on direct appeal.
A claim that the trial court should have instructed the jury on a lesser-included offense cannot be raised in post-conviction proceedings because it is a matter that should have been raised on direct appeal.
[1] A claim that the trial court failed to instruct the jury on a lesser-included offense is barred from post-conviction review and must be raised on direct appeal.
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In this case appellant Bobby Falagan appeals to this Court from an order denying a motion to vacate a previous judgment and sentence entered against Falagan in said Court pursuant to an adverse trial, sentence of conviction, and adjudication of guilt entered in the trial Court on July 1, 1970, upon the charge as contained in the information. The sole assignment of error is that the trial Court should have ordered an evi-dentiary hearing upon the motion. We agree with the trial Court and affirm.
The information charged Falagan with the offense of armed robbery. Pursuant to 'the adverse verdict, he was sentenced to life imprisonment. Upon his post-conviction motion for relief he contends that he *110was entitled to have a jury instruction at his trial upon the lesser-included offense of larceny. But such contention is foreclosed to Falagan through a post-conviction proceeding because it is a matter which was or could have been raised on direct appeal, after being first duly presented to the trial Court and obtaining ruling thereon. Culberson v. State, Fla.App.1969, 224 So.2d 363; Roberts v. State, Fla.App.1970, 242 So.2d 191; Peterson v. State, Fla.App.1970, 237 So.2d 223.
The order appealed denying the motion to vacate the judgment and sentence is therefore—
Affirmed.
LILES and MANN, JJ., concur.
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- Peterson v. State, 237 So. 2d 223 (Fla. 1st DCA 1970)
- Roberts v. State, 242 So. 2d 191 (Fla. 3d DCA 1970)
- Owens v. State, 224 So. 2d 363 (Fla. 4th DCA 1969)
- Thadeaus R. Culberson v. State, 224 So. 2d 363 (Fla. 2d DCA 1969)