J.B. v. State

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING

WARNER, J.

We grant appellant’s motion for rehearing, vacate our prior opinion, and substitute the following in its place.

A juvenile appeals her adjudication for petit theft. She claims that the court erred in allowing a store security officer to testify as to another officer’s statement that the appellant had committed a theft of store merchandise. We agree with the appellant that this was inadmissible hearsay. Further, because this was the only evidence of theft, the appellant’s confession was likewise inadmissible because the state failed to prove the corpus delicti…