Court Opinion

ID: 7584384
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-29 06:34:08.881335+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:24:34.002960
License: Public Domain

GRIFFIN, Judge,
concurring specially.
Appellant was charged with violation of section 713.34(3), Florida Statutes (1985), fraudulent misuse of construction funds. The evidence at trial revealed that appellant (falsely) signed a lien waiver affidavit to obtain the first construction draw from the lender. He then sent a post-dated check to his concrete supplier without expressly designating that the payment was *1153to be applied to the job for which he obtained the money. The supplier applied the payment to another older account. Appellant claimed that when he learned of the materialman’s action, he sought to have the supplier change the payment allocation; the supplier denied it. Disregarding the statutory presumption because the state disclaimed reliance upon it, the evidence is just barely adequate to support this conviction.