B.P. v. State

The appellant, then a sixteen year old youth, was charged in a June, 1984 petition for delinquency with grand theft of sapodillas (a tropical fruit) from a grove in Dade County. The testimony and evidence before the trial court showed that the juvenile appellant agreed to go with two men for whom he recently had worked delivering newspapers, on a trip to pick some fruit. The men told the juvenile that they planned to take the fruit to Texas and sell it there. After they had picked and paid for some fruit, one of the men stopped to speak to a worker in another grove. The juvenile did not hear…