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The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XLVII
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE AND CORRECTIONS
Chapter 923
FORM OF INDICTMENT AND OTHER FORMS
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923.03 Indictment and information.
(1) The following forms of indictment and information, in all cases to which they are applicable, shall be deemed sufficient, as a charge of the offense to which they relate as defined by the laws of this state, and analogous forms may be used in all other cases:
(a) As to first degree murder:

In the name and by the authority of the State of Florida: The Grand Jurors of the County of   charge that A. B. unlawfully and from a premeditated design to effect the death of   (or while robbing the house of   as the case may be) did murder   in said county, by shooting her or him with a gun or pistol (or by striking her or him with a club—or by giving her or him poison to drink—or by pushing her or him into the water whereby she or he was drowned).

(b) As to second degree murder:

Unlawfully by an act imminently dangerous to another, and evincing a depraved mind, regardless of human life; that is to say, by firing her or his shotgun into the store of   (or by striking   with an adz, as the case may be) but without a premeditated design to effect the death of any particular person, did kill   in said county.

(c) As to third degree murder:

Unlawfully, and while feloniously stealing cattle (or timber, or while feloniously assaulting   as the case may be), but without any design to effect death, did kill   in said county, by sinking her or his boat (or by running over her or him with an automobile—or by shooting her or him with a gun or pistol, as the case may be).

(d) As to manslaughter:

Unlawfully and by culpable negligence, in driving an automobile (or firing a boiler—or by performing a surgical operation) or (in the heat of passion—omitting in this latter case the allegation of culpable negligence), but without intent to murder, did kill   in said county, by running over her or him with said automobile (or by causing said boiler to explode—or by infecting her or him with a deadly infection—or by striking her or him with a hammer).

(e) As to perjury:

In the hearing of a cause in the   court of   County, Florida, in which   and others were plaintiffs and   others were defendants, after being duly sworn to speak the truth, falsely swore, etc. (stating the substance of the false testimony), such matter being material in said cause, and the said   then and there knowing that she or he swore falsely.

(2) An information shall be in the same form and signed by the state attorney who shall also append thereto the oath of the state attorney to the effect following:

Personally appeared before me   (official title of state attorney)   who, being first duly sworn, says that the allegations as set forth in the foregoing information are based upon facts that have been sworn to as true and which, if true, would constitute the offense therein charged.

The affidavit shall be made by the state attorney before some person qualified to administer an oath.

History.s. 279(1-2), ch. 19554, 1939; CGL 1940 Supp. 8663(289); s. 38, ch. 73-334; s. 1553, ch. 97-102.

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Darty v. State, 161 So. 2d 864 (Fla. 2d DCA 1964).

Cited 24 times | Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal

...We do not find from the instant record that the verdict of the jury was reached by the avenue of error. Affirmed. SHANNON, Acting C.J., and KANNER, J., (RET.), concur. NOTES [1] See Fla. Stat. 918.10(4), F.S.A.; Winnemore v. State, Fla.App. 1963, 150 So.2d 277, 280. [2] Fla. Stat. § 906.05, F.S.A.; Fla. Stat. § 923.03(a), F.S.A.
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Shifrin v. State, 210 So. 2d 18 (Fla. 3d DCA 1968).

Cited 5 times | Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal

...nd timely oral motion was made to quash the information on the specific ground that it failed to allege the true facts in regard to the claimed perjury. Appellee suggests that even if this is true, it would be of no importance, because of Fla. Stat. § 923.03, F.S.A....
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Eagan v. DeManio, 294 So. 2d 639 (Fla. 1974).

Cited 4 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida

...ute the statutory oath which requires them to swear that "[T]he allegations as set forth in the foregoing information are based upon facts that have been sworn to as true and which, if true, would constitute the offense therein charged." Fla. Stat., § 923.03(2), F.S.A....
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Taylor v. State, 22 So. 2d 639 (Fla. 1945).

Cited 3 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 156 Fla. 122, 1945 Fla. LEXIS 770

...ial. We have quoted the indictment because we regard it as a model of brevity and perfection. It is in line with the opinions of this Court in Reed v. State, 94 Fla. 32, 45 , 113 So. 630, 635 , and Pell v. State, 97 Fla. 650 , 122 So. 110 . See also Section 923.03(a) F.S....
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State, Off. of State Atty. for 20th Jc v. Sievert, 312 So. 2d 788 (Fla. 2d DCA 1975).

Cited 1 times | Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal

...of Andrew Sievert is quashed; the order stipulating conditions for interrogation of Christina Sievert is approved and certiorari in Appeal # 75-72 is denied. McNULTY, C.J., and HOBSON, J., concur. NOTES [1] Fla. Const. Art. V, § 17. [2] Fla. Stat. § 923.03(2).
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State v. McGowan, 178 So. 2d 738 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1965).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1965 Fla. App. LEXIS 3684

...Although the wording is awkward, redundant, and leaves much to be desired from a rhetorical and grammatical standpoint and is in the conjunctive, it has been approved by our courts. The information alleges all essential elements of the crime of manslaughter as set forth in § 782.07, F.S.A. Section 923.03(d), F.S.A., adopted in 1939, provides a form of information for manslaughter that is sufficient....
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Morffy v. State, 534 So. 2d 733 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1988).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 13 Fla. L. Weekly 2392, 1988 Fla. App. LEXIS 4719, 1988 WL 110851

...Article I, section 15, of the Florida Constitution, expressly provides that no person shall be tried for a felony without an information under oath filed by the prosecuting officer. Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.140(g) contains the identical requirement. See also § 923.03(2), Fla.Stat....
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State v. Fabian, 97 So. 2d 178 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1957).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida

...16 , 36 So. 705 ; Tindall v. State, 99 Fla. 1132 , 128 So. 494 ; Gibson v. State, 47 Fla. 34 , 36 So. 706 ; Annotation in 80 A.L.R. 1443 . We are of the opinion that, under this rule, the materiality of the false statements was sufficiently alleged.” Section 923.03, Florida Statutes, 1955, F.S.A., contains a number of suggested indictments and informations, among which is the following: “(e) As to perjury: “In the hearing of a cause in the -court of-County, Florida, in which-and others were p...
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State v. Hill, 208 So. 2d 154 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1968).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1968 Fla. App. LEXIS 5735

information upon oath as set forth in 923.02 F.S. [sic § 923.03(2), Fla.Stat., F.S.A.]” It is the state’s contention
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State v. Harden, 384 So. 2d 52 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1980).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1980 Fla. App. LEXIS 16357

...eings. The trial court granted the motion and this appeal ensued. The indictment for first degree murder is in substantial compliance with the statutory form which does not require designation of the victim or the accused as persons or human beings. § 923.03(l)(a), Fla.Stat....
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State v. Mandell, 599 So. 2d 1383 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1992).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1992 Fla. App. LEXIS 5838, 1992 WL 115764

requires that the information be “under oath.” Section 923.03(2), Florida Statutes (1991), in turn, requires
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Bazarte v. State, 117 So. 2d 227 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1959).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida

...falsely in regard to cmy material matter or thing, respecting which such oath or affirmation is authorized or required, shall be deemed guilty of perjury. * * (Emphasis supplied.) It is true that a form of information charging perjury is set out in Section 923.03, Florida Statutes, F.S.A., as follows: “923.03 * * * “(e) As to perjury: “In the hearing of a cause in the .court of.County, Florida, in which.and others were plaintiffs and ....
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Williams v. State, 715 So. 2d 336 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1998).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1998 Fla. App. LEXIS 9737, 1998 WL 432802

...months, and did not appeal the judgment or sentence, contended that the charging information “was highly prejudice (sic), because it improperly shifts the burden of proof’ (i.e., that by including the word “did” from the form information in section 923.03, Florida Statutes, the charging document “stated he ‘did ’ the crime”); that section 923.03 “is unconstitutional and unconstitutionally applied upon the implementation of Fla.R.Crim.P....
...3.140”; and that defense counsel was ineffective “for not objecting to the alleged defects and not filing a Motion to Dismiss the defective charging document” (emphasis in the original). Appellant’s arguments concerning the “uneonstitutionality” of section 923.03 were as follows: 1) “Chapter 923 was not adopted by the Florida Supreme Court to promulgate practice and procedure as a rule per Article V, Section 2(a) of the Florida Constitution”; 2) “The State Attorneys are not uniform in the...

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