In the Interest of R.D.D. v. State

DAUKSCH, Judge.

This is an appeal from a delinquency adjudication. Appellant was adjudicated delinquent after he was found to have violated a felony petit theft statute. Under section 812.014(2)(c), Florida Statutes (1985), any person convicted for the third *535time of petit theft is guilty not of a misdemeanor, as petit theft, but of a felony for having been thrice convicted.

Appellant says this felony petit theft provision does not apply to him because he is a juvenile, even though it was his third petit larceny adjudication. We disagree and adopt the reasoning and holding of T.S.W v. State, 489…