D.J. v. State

The appellant, a high school student, was adjudicated delinquent after being found guilty of the misdemeanor offenses of attempted battery on a school employee and affray. On appeal, he contends that the evidence was insufficient to sustain findings of guilt for these offenses. We agree that the state failed to carry its burden of proving the attempted battery offense, but we sustain the finding of guilt on affray.

*1256A delinquency petition charged the appellant with battery on a school employee and affray. The charges arose from appellant’s schoolyard fistfight with a fellow student in which an…