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DAVIS v. STATE

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
Mar 25, 1986

PER CURIAM.

Because the disputed and equivocal circumstantial evidence that Davis was driving the decedent's vehicle at the time of the fatal accident was, as a matter of law, insufficient to overcome Davis' direct testimony on the stand and other evidence that he was a passenger, Mayo v. State, 71 So.2d 899 (Fla. 1954); see McArthur v. State, 351 So.2d 972 (Fla. 1977); cf. State v. Allen, 335 So.2d 823 (Fla. 1976), the conviction below of manslaughter under ยง 316.1931, Fla. Stat. (1983) is reversed with directions to discharge the defendant.