In the Interest of E. W. v. State

MILLS, Chief Judge.

Delinquency petitions were filed charging E. W., a juvenile, with a burglary, the theft of a calculator, and the theft of a bicycle. We find the challenge to the disposition of the first two charges to be without merit, but we reverse as to the theft of the bicycle.

The evidence established that a bicycle was missing and that the juvenile owner named in the amended petition and his mother identified a bicycle which had been recovered by the police. The evidence also established that E. W. returned home one evening with a bicycle which his mother testified was not his. There…