P.N. v. State

SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.

The appellant was adjudicated delinquent based on a finding that he was guilty of grand theft. That determination was in turn founded upon the presumption of guilty knowledge which arose from the fact that he was in possession of a recently stolen moped. Section 812.022(2), Florida Statutes (1981). When he was stopped by the police, P.N. told the officer first that he had borrowed the moped from a cousin, then a brother, and finally — as he testified at trial — from an otherwise unidentified friend named Victor Cruz. We conclude that the multiplicity of alternative…