P.N. v. STATE

No. 82-1870.

443 So.2d 193 (1983)

P.N., a Juvenile, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

December 13, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender and Elliot H. Scherker, Asst. Public Defender, for appellant.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen. and Penny H. Brill, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and HUBBART and BASKIN, JJ.


SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.

The appellant was adjudicated delinquent based on a finding that he was guilty of grand theft. That determination was in turn founded upon the presumption of guilty knowledge which arose from the fact that he was in possession of a recently stolen moped. Section 812.022(2), Florida Statutes (1981). When he was stopped by the police, P.N. told the officer first that he had borrowed the moped from a cousin, then a brother, and finally —...

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