Grant v. State

Supreme Court of Florida

Decided May 26, 1978

Supreme Court of Florida · decided 1978-05-26

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

“[a]ctually ... touches or strikes another person,”

quoted by 1 later decision, including 444 So. 2d 1096 - Malczewski v. State

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1978-05-26

How this case has been cited

Cited by 203 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably 151 Wis. 2d 354 - State v. Truax (1989), 461 So. 2d 936 - Bush v. State (1984)

1 federal appellate · 201 state decisions

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ENGLAND, Justice.

¶1Charles Grant was tried by a jury and convicted of battering another person in violation of Section 784.03(l)(a), Florida Statutes (1975).1 His challenge to the constitutionality of the statute, as violating due process of law on the grounds of over-breadth and vagueness, brings his conviction and sentence here for review.2

¶2We find no merit in Grant’s arguments concerning the validity of the battery statute, and we find no infirmity in his trial. The evidence was more than adequate to support the jury’s verdict. Grant’s conviction and sentence are affirmed.

¶3It is so ordered.

OVERTON, C. J., and ADKINS, BOYD, SUNDBERG, HATCHETT and ALDERMAN, JJ., concur.

¶4. “A person commits battery if he [a]ctually and intentionally touches or strikes another person against the will of the other

¶5. Art. V, § 3(b)(1), Fla.Const.