Opinion

State v. Brown

  • 10 Fla. L. Weekly 961
  • 466 So. 2d 1223
  • 1985 Fla. App. LEXIS 13419
Court
District Court of Appeal of Florida
Filed
Apr 10, 1985
Status
Published
Author
Frank
On the bench
Campbell, Frank, Ryder
Cited by
1 cases
Authority
More cited than 57.1%

The opinion

FRANK, Judge.

The appellee, Brown, was charged with the offense of false imprisonment in violation of section 787.02, Florida Statutes. The trial court dismissed the information for its failure to allege that the appellee’s unlawful restraint of the victim was committed with a specific intent. The state has appealed. We recently held in State v. Graham, 468 So.2d 270 (Fla. 2d DCA 1985), that false imprisonment is a crime requiring only general intent and that there is no necessity to assert a specific purpose or intent in an information charging a violation of section 787.02.

Accordingly, we reverse and remand for proceedings consistent with this opinion.

RYDER, C.J., and CAMPBELL, J., concur.

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