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500 So. 2d 173

500 So.2d 173

11 Fla.L.Weekly 1662

Beatty v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida · decided 1986-07-31

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently April 2000

2 state decisions

Relies on 470 So. 2d 703 - Marr v. State

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Decided 1986-07-31

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PER CURIAM.

¶1After complete review of the record, we find no error in the trial court’s denial of the motion for judgment of acquittal.

¶2The giving of an instruction on circumstantial evidence is discretionary with the trial judge. There was no abuse of discretion in the trial judge’s refusal to give the defendant’s requested special jury instruction number 4 on circumstantial evidence.

¶3The trial judge did not err in refusing to give an instruction calling for rigid scrutiny of the prosecutrix' testimony in a sexual battery case. Marr v. State, 470 So.2d 703 (Fla. 1st DCA 1985).

¶4AFFIRMED.

SMITH, WENTWORTH and BARFIELD, JJ., concur.
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