Ridge v. State
Ridge v. State
Opinion of the Court
Appellant challenges the judgment and sentence entered after a jury found him guilty of armed trespass, resisting an officer without violence, and loitering or prowling. He contends the lower court erred in refusing to instruct the jury on his defense of involuntary intoxication. The State properly concedes that Appellant was entitled to an instruction on involuntary intoxication, and it does not take issue with Appellant’s assertion that the trial judge’s stated reason for denying the instruction was erroneous. The State nevertheless asserts that the trial court should be affirmed because the proffered, special instruction was not a correct statement of the law — an objection not argued below.
REVERSED AND REMANDED.
. The case went to trial before the adoption of a standard jury instruction regarding involuntary intoxication. See Fla. Std. Jury Instr. (Crim.) 3.6(e)(2).
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