E.H. v. State

SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.

Once again, we consider and are forced to reverse an adjudication that the accused was guilty of aiding and abetting the substantive offense which was the sole charge asserted and as to which the evidence is simply insufficient to establish the necessary elements of that claim.1 E.g., J.H. v. State, 370 So.2d 1219 (Fla. 3d DCA 1979), cert. denied, 379 So.2d 209 (Fla.1980).

The respondent, a seventeen-year-old female, was charged with robbery and adjudicated delinquent on that ground. Since she had no part in the actual offense — the mugging of a patron as he emerged from…