In Re Alex C.

The juvenile, Alex C., appeals the Jaffrey-Peterborough District Court’s (Runyon, J.) finding of delinquency based upon a petition alleging simple assault. See RSA 631:2-a (2007). He argues that the trial court should have dismissed the petition because it did not allege a mens rea. We reverse and remand.

The record supports the following facts. In October 2007, the juvenile, along with two or three friends, accosted M.W., also a juvenile, as he walked in a park. The juvenile and his friends were on bicycles and began riding past M.W., hitting him with dried vegetation, which M.W. described as…