C.E. v. State

WARNER, Judge.

This appeal arises from the juvenile appellant’s adjudication of delinquency for burglary and petit theft. The state’s ease against the appellant was based entirely on fingerprint evidence found on the vehicle which was entered and from which a portable phone was stolen. Because we find that the circumstantial evidence was not inconsistent with the appellant’s hypothesis of innocence, we reverse.

Circumstantial evidence may support a conviction only if it is consistent with guilt and inconsistent with any reasonable hypothesis of innocence. State v. Law, 559 So.2d 187, 188…