State v. Davis

GRIMES, Acting Chief Judge.

By this appeal the state seeks to have this court determine the propriety of a ruling that the alteration of the numbers of a Federal Reserve note and the subsequent attempt to spend the same as a note of a higher denomination does not constitute an offense under Section 831.09, Florida Statutes (1977).1

Appellee was charged with uttering a forged bill in violation of Section 831.09. The information alleged that he had altered the numeral 2 on a two dollar bill to read “20” and attempted to use the bill as payment for admission to the Garden Drive-In Theatre in…