J.M.A. v. STATE

No. 98-00456.

732 So.2d 27 (1999)

J.M.A., a child, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

April 30, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Richard J. Sanders, Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Jenny S. Sieg, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee.


PARKER, Chief Judge.

J.M.A. appeals his sentence for trespass and larceny of electrical power from a utility. We reverse for insufficient evidence and direct the trial court to enter a judgment of acquittal.

The only witness the State presented at the adjudicatory hearing was an investigator in the security department of Tampa Electric Company (TECO). The investigator testified that in July 1997, TECO removed an electric meter and disconnected service to Apartment...

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