Case Name: STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Willie Frank BROWN, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1985-04-10
Citations: 466 So. 2d 1223
Docket Number: No. 84-1519
Parties: STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Willie Frank BROWN, Appellee.
Judges: RYDER, C.J., and CAMPBELL, J., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 466
Pages: 1223–1223

Head Matter:
STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Willie Frank BROWN, Appellee.
No. 84-1519.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.
April 10, 1985.
Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and William E. Taylor, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for appellant.
James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and John T. Kilcrease, Jr., Asst. Public Defender, Bartow, for appellee.

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.