Cofield v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that testimony of value was legally insufficient because it was based off of computer printouts which constituted inadmissible hearsay without a proper foundation established
• concluding that the court's erroneous admission of hearsay was harmful given that \no other competent evidence\ established the value of the stolen goods
• adopting rule as stated in Pickrell v. State, 301 So.2d 473, 474 (Fla. 2d DCA 1974) [1]
• adopting rule as stated in Pickrell v. State, 301 So.2d 473, 474 (Fla. 2d DCA 1974)
• deeming the testimony of a company security officer, who lacked personal knowledge of the value of the stolen goods, insufficient to establish value
• reversing conviction for grand theft finding improperly admitted evidence of value was harmful error

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Gray v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2005-07-25· cited 50×
• In Interest of FR
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1989-03-10· cited 26×
• King v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1991-12-13· cited 14×
• Smith v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1991-01-22· cited 8×
• Robinson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1997-01-03· cited 8×
• S.M.M. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1990-11-09· cited 8×
• Anthony Keith Council v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2016-12-12· cited 7×
• Brown v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2013-05-22· cited 6×
• Campbell v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2007-02-07· cited 3×
• Arnett v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-04-23· cited 2×
• Steffen v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2005-05-04· cited 2×
• Scott v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1989-10-17· cited 1×
• H.S. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1991-08-13
• T. v. U. v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2025-02-12
• Patrick Anthony Ribbing v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2025-07-09
• Patrick Anthony Ribbing v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2025-10-01

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Negron v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1974-11-13· cited 117×
• Taylor v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-01-27· cited 46×
• Swain v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1984-08-22· cited 44×
• Evans v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1984-07-06· cited 20×
• Weatherspoon v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-09-15· cited 19×
• Pickrell v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1974-09-27· cited 18×