T.E. v. State

COPE, Judge.

This is an appeal from an order withholding adjudication of delinquency and placing the appellant juvenile on community control.

The twelve-year-old appellant was charged by petition with a single count of arson of an unoccupied structure in violation of section 806.01, Florida Statutes (1995). At the adjudicatory hearing, one of the State’s two witnesses, Odell Robbins, testified that he had seen the appellant playing with two other boys around a wooden storage shack on the grounds of an apartment complex. Robbins testified that the appellant climbed empty-handed into the shack…