J.A.S. v. STATE

No. 2D04-4983.

920 So.2d 759 (2006)

J.A.S., Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

February 10, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Allyn M. Giambalvo, Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellant.

Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and C. Suzanne Bechard, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee.


NORTHCUTT, Judge.

J.A.S. was adjudicated delinquent based on the circuit court's finding that he committed a battery. He complains that the State's attempt to prove the corpus delicti of the charge consisted solely of inadmissible evidence that was considered by the court over his objection. He maintains that without this evidence he was entitled to a dismissal. We agree and reverse.

The delinquency petition alleged that J.A.S. battered his father at their...

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