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Fla. Stat. § 817.29 (2025)
Cheating.
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Arrestable Offenses under F.S. 817.29
M = misdemeanor · F = felony · degree: F=1st S=2nd T=3rd§817.29FRAUDCHEATING OR GROSS FRAUD
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 9
cases, 1966–2013 · leading case: Rollins, Inc. v. Butland, 951 So. 2d 860 (Fla. 2d DCA 2006).
Rollins, Inc. v. Butland, 951 So. 2d 860 (Fla. 2d DCA 2006). “01, Florida Statutes (2001), defrauding and cheating consumers in violation of section 817.29, Florida Statutes (2001), and improperly accepting annual renewal payments and other money from consumers in violation of section 812.”
Aery v. Wallace Lincoln-Mercury, LLC, 118 So. 3d 904 (Fla. 4th DCA 2013). “Section 817.29 F.S. — Cheat, also a third degree felony; c.”
State v. Vikhlyantsev, 602 So. 2d 636 (Fla. 2d DCA 1992). “The appellee was charged in a two count information with cheating, in violation of section 817.29, Florida Statutes (1989), and petit theft, in violation of section 812.”
Amlotte v. State, 435 So. 2d 249 (Fla. 5th DCA 1983). “Even a common-law cheat is a felony of the third degree under section 817.29. However the inadequacy of the penalty is a problem for the legislature which could best solve this problem by the enactment of a statute providing that whoever, with intent to kill, assaults, or does…”
Rollins, Inc. v. Butland, 932 So. 2d 1172 (Fla. 2d DCA 2006). “01, Florida Statutes (2001), defrauding and cheating consumers in violation of section 817.29, Florida Statutes (2001), and improperly accepting annual renewal payments and other money from consumers in *1194 violation of section 812.”
State v. Peterson, 192 So. 2d 293 (Fla. 2d DCA 1966). “Section 817.29, F.S.A. on Cheating and Fraud, as related to crime, provides : “Whoever is convicted of any gross fraud or cheat at common law shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison not exceeding ten years, or in the county jail not exceeding one year, or by fine…”
H. L. A. v. State, 395 So. 2d 250 (Fla. 1st DCA 1981). “02, or with cheating, Section 817.29. Compare State v. Peterson, 192 So.”
Darwish v. State, 937 So. 2d 789 (Fla. 2d DCA 2006). “Darwish challenges his judgment and sentence for the third-degree felony of cheating, section 817.29, Florida Statutes (2004). Mr.”
State v. Vikhlyantsev, 622 So. 2d 1365 (Fla. 2d DCA 1993). “The state charged the appellee with cheating in violation of section 817.29, Florida Statutes (1991). In the first appeal, the trial court found that the cheating statute had been repealed by implication by sections 812.”
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