K.P. v. STATE

No. Z-343.

327 So.2d 820 (1976)

In Interest of K.P., a Child, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

Rehearing Denied March 26, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard W. Ervin, III, Public Defender, and Louis G. Carres, Asst. Public Defender, for appellant.

Robert L. Shevin, Atty. Gen., and Wallace E. Allbritton, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.


BOYER, Chief Judge.

The primary question presented in this appeal is whether the rebuttable common law presumption that a child under the age of 14 is presumed to be incapable of committing a crime is applicable to juvenile court proceedings in Florida.

Although there is no transcript of the testimony adduced at the delinquency hearing below, the reconstructed record as attested to by the trial judge indicates that...

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