C.E. v. STATE

No. 94-3405.

665 So.2d 1097 (1996)

C.E., a Child, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

January 3, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender, and Karen E. Ehrlich, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Joan L. Greenberg, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.


WARNER, Judge.

This appeal arises from the juvenile appellant's adjudication of delinquency for burglary and petit theft. The state's case against the appellant was based entirely on fingerprint evidence found on the vehicle which was entered and from which a portable phone was stolen. Because we find that the circumstantial evidence was not inconsistent with the appellant's hypothesis of innocence, we reverse.

Circumstantial evidence may support a conviction...

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