Ala. Pattern Jury Instr. (Criminal) 13A-11-64(1)

Altering Identification of Firearm

The defendant is charged with altering identification of a firearm.

A person commits the crime of altering identification of a firearm if he/she changes,

alters, removes, or obliterates the name of the maker, model, manufacturer's number or

other mark or identification of any firearm.

To convict, the State must prove beyond a reasonable doubt each of the following

elements:

(1) The defendant changed, altered, removed, or obliterated the name of the

maker, model, manufacturer's number or other mark or identification of a

firearm, {insert description of firearm]; (AND)

(2) The defendant acted intentionally.

A firearm is a weapon from which a shot is discharged by gunpowder. [13A-11-

62(1); 13A-8-1(5)]

A person acts intentionally with respect to a result or to conduct described by a

statute defining an offense, when his/her purpose is to cause that result or to engage in

that conduct. [13A-2-2(1)]

If you find from the evidence that the State has proved beyond a reasonable doubt

each of the above elements of altering identification of a firearm, then you shall find the

defendant guilty of altering identification of a firearm.

If you find that the State has failed to prove any one or more of the elements of

altering identification of a firearm, then you cannot find the defendant guilty of altering

identification of a firearm.