R. D. C. v. State

PEARSON, Judge.

The point presented on this appeal is whether the appellant, a juvenile respondent in a delinquency proceeding, was entitled to a judgment of acquittal when the State failed to present any evidence of his legal capacity to commit a crime. The hearing on the petition for delinquency revealed that the respondent had assaulted three elderly citizens and beaten one of the victims with a rock, thereafter grabbing a purse from another of the victims and fleeing with it. The respondent was twelve years of age on the date that the petition was filed. At the close of the State’s case,…