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303 So. 2d 675

Docket No. 74-332.

State v. McIntyre

STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Joseph McINTYRE, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided November 29, 1974.

District Court of Appeal of Florida · decided 1974-11-29

Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently January 1986

8 state decisions

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

“RULE 3.190. PRE-TRIAL MOTIONS ... . (b) Motion to Dismiss. Grounds. All defenses available to a defendant by plea, other than not guilty, shall be made only by motion to dismiss the indictment or information whether the same shall relate to matters of form, substance, former acquittal, former jeopardy, or any other defense. ... . (c) ... Except for objections based upon fundamental grounds, every ground for motion to dismiss which is not presented by a motion to dismiss within the time hereinabove provided for shall be taken to have been waived. However, the court may at any time entertain a motion to dismiss on any of the following grounds: ... . (4) There are no material disputed facts and the undisputed facts do not establish a prima facie case of guilt against the defendant. The facts on which such motion is based should be specifically alleged and the motion sworn to. ... . (e) Effect of Sustaining a Motion to Dismiss. If the motion to dismiss is sustained the court may order that the defendant be held in custody or admitted to bail for a reasonable specified time pending the filing of a new indictment or information. If a new indictment or information is not filed within the time specified in the order, or within such additional time as the court may allow for good cause shown, the defendant, if in custody, shall be discharged therefrom, unless some other charge justifies a continuation in custody. If he has been released on bail he and his sureties shall be exonerated;”

quoted by 2 later decisions, including 482 So. 2d 1388 - State v. Smulowitz, 400 So. 2d 162 - State v. Holder

Relies on 283 So. 2d 126 - State v. De Jerinett

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1974-11-29

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¶1*676 Philip S. Shailer, State Atty., and Jon H. Gutmacher, Asst. State Atty., Fort Lauderdale, for appellant.

¶2Warner S. Olds, Public Defender, and William W. Herring, Asst. Public Defender, Fort Lauderdale, for appellee.

¶3DOWNEY, Judge.

¶4The state has appealed from an order dismissing an information charging appellee with attempted escape.

¶5Appellee, as defendant below, filed a motion to dismiss the information pursuant to Rule 3.190(c)(4), CrPR, attaching thereto the depositions of several state witnesses. The appellant filed a traverse and upon consideration of the depositions the court dismissed the information.

¶6One of the eye witnesses testified to facts from which a jury could find appellee guilty of attempted escape. It matters not that other witnesses or evidence may be at issue with that testimony. At this stage of the case, as in a motion for summary judgment in a civil case, if there is any evidence upon which a jury of reaonable men could find guilt, it is a jury question and the motion to dismiss must be denied. State v. De Jerinett, Fla.App. 1973, 283 So.2d 126.

¶7Lest our silence be taken as approval of the procedure used by the appellee in relying upon said depositions to meet the requirement of the rule that the facts on which the motion is based should be specifically alleged, we address ourselves briefly thereto.

¶8Rule 3.190(c)(4), CrPR, enables a defendant to terminate a prosecution by motion to dismiss when "there are no material disputed facts and the undisputed facts do not establish a prima facie case of guilt against the defendant." But the motion to dismiss must set forth the facts on which it is based, otherwise there is nothing for the state to traverse. Attaching a deposition is not the equivalent of "alleging facts" as the rule requires. Use of a deposition is appropriate in support of the facts alleged in the motion but is not a substitute for such allegations. Here, appellee's motion simply refers to the depositions as showing that no acts committed by appellee were in furtherance of an attempt to escape.

¶9Since there is a jury issue presented as to the guilt of the appellee, the order dismissing Count II of the information is reversed and the cause is remanded for further proceedings.

¶10Reversed.

¶11WALDEN and MAGER, JJ., concur.

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