DONALD JAMES KELLY
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA

Fla. 5th DCA | 2019-03-22
No. 18-1841
Maltz, J., Edwards, J., Eisnaugle, J., Sasso, J.
266 So. 3d 872 Florida District Court of Appeal, Fifth District (2019) Positive Treatment
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Holding

A judgment and sentence for aggravated assault with intent to commit a felony is affirmed despite a scrivener's error in the statutory citation, which must be corrected on remand.


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[1] A scrivener's error in the statutory citation within a judgment does not invalidate the conviction and may be corrected on remand to reflect the actual offense of convict…

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Donald James Kelly pled guilty to aggravated assault with intent to commit a felony in violation of section 784.021(1)(b), Florida Statutes. The judgm…

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Opinion of the Court
Sasso

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA

FIFTH DISTRICT

NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO

FILE MOTION FOR REHEARING AND

DISPOSITION THEREOF IF FILED

DONALD JAMES KELLY,

Appellant,

v. Case No. 5D18-1841

STATE OF FLORIDA,

Appellee.

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Opinion filed March 22, 2019

Appeal from the Circuit Court for St. Johns County, Howard M. Maltz, Judge.

James S. Purdy, Public Defender, and David M. Dixon, Assistant Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for Appellant. Donald James Kelly, Bristol, pro se.

Ashley Moody, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and L. Charlene Matthews, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellee.

PER CURIAM.

We affirm the judgment and sentence rendered against Donald James Kelly after he pled guilty to aggravated assault with intent to commit a felony in violation of section 784.021(1)(b), Florida Statutes (2017). However, we remand for correction of a

AFFIRMED; REMANDED for correction of scrivener’s error.

EDWARDS, EISNAUGLE, and SASSO, JJ., concur.

Footnotes
2 scrivener’s error in the judgment, which erroneously cites to section 784.021(1)(a), corresponding to aggravated assault with a deadly weapon without intent to kill.

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