D. M. v. State

HUBBART, Chief Judge.

The adjudication of delinquency for the offense of theft [§ 812.014(1), Fla.Stat. *521(1979)], which is under review by this appeal, is reversed and the cause is remanded to the trial court with directions to discharge the juvenile from the cause. Our review of the record convinces us that the state’s evidence linking the juvenile to the theft offense herein, which was entirely circumstantial in nature, fails to exclude, as required by law, every reasonable hypothesis of innocence. The trial court was, accordingly, in error in denying the juvenile’s motion for judgment of…