S.B. v. State

S.B., the defendant below, appeals from the trial court’s finding of guilt and withholding of adjudication as to one charge of resisting an officer without violence. He argues that the trial court should have granted his motion for judgment of dismissal because the State presented no evidence that he knew of the officers’ intent to detain him. We agree and reverse.

In a Petition for Delinquency, the State charged S.B. with resisting an officer without violence. The evidence presented by the State at the hearing on the Petition was that, on the night of the incident, two officers observed two…