The Fourth District Court of Appeal upheld a 16-year sentence Wednesday against millionaire Wellington Polo Club founder John Goodman, who won a token victory on a double jeopardy question that doesn't affect his prison term.

Goodman has been litigating his case since a 2010 hit-and-run crash killed Scott Patrick Wilson, 23. Goodman was accused of running a stop sign while drunk in his Bentley convertible and hitting Wilson's car at night. Goodman didn't call for help, and the engineering graduate drowned after his Hyundai slid into a canal.

Goodman was convicted of drunken-driving manslaughter and vehicular homicide in 2012 and again in a 2014 retrial, receiving the same sentence both times.

The appellate court affirmed the conviction and sentence for DUI manslaughter with failure to render aid but ruled the vehicular homicide conviction could not stand on double jeopardy grounds.

The court noted Palm Beach Circuit Jeffrey Colbath withheld adjudication and sentencing on the vehicular homicide count at the state's request pending appeal.

"We recognize the dilemma both the court and the state face in such a circumstance," the opinion said. "Resolving a double jeopardy issue on appeal where there are substantial issues as to the other conviction may be a reasonable solution."

Margaret Good-Earnest and Cherry Grant of Good-Earnest Law in Lake Worth handled Goodman's appeal. There was no response to requests for comment by deadline.

Judge Martha Warner wrote the opinion, and Judges Carole Taylor and Spencer Levine concurred.

Goodman is an heir of a Houston-based air conditioning and heating company fortune. The family business once owned the Amana appliance brand.