Florida Statutes
Fla. Stat. § 817.031 (2025)
Making false statements; venue of prosecution.
✓ 2025 Florida Statutes — current through the 2025 Regular Session
Find cases:
SyfertCases citing this section
FL-LEGleg.state.fl.us
JustiaFla. Statutes
CornellLII Search
CasesGoogle Scholar
817.031 Making false statements; venue of prosecution.—Prosecutions under s. 817.03 may be begun in the county where the statement was written, or purports to have been written.
History.—s. 2, ch. 5134, 1903; GS 3323; RGS 5161; CGL 7264.
Note.—Former s. 817.04.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2
cases, 1998–2011 · leading case: State v. Summerlot, 711 So. 2d 589 (Fla. 3d DCA 1998).
State v. Summerlot, 711 So. 2d 589 (Fla. 3d DCA 1998). “034 and the legislative intent embodied in section 817.031(1) of the statute, the State must prove that the defendant did "communicate" as part of a scheme to defraud, and that the victims' property was obtained by means of said scheme.”
Perry v. Sec'y, Florida Dep't of Corr., 664 F.3d 1359 (11th Cir. 2011). “101 (5) (allowing all routine mail correspondence to be opened, examined, and read to determine if the contents facilitate criminal activity).”
— 817.031(1) — 1 case
State v. Summerlot, 711 So. 2d 589 (Fla. 3d DCA 1998). “034 and the legislative intent embodied in section 817.031(1) of the statute, the State must prove that the defendant did "communicate" as part of a scheme to defraud, and that the victims' property was obtained by means of said scheme.”
Annotations are extracted automatically from the opinions in the
Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and
treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.