C.W. v. State

PATTERSON, Chief Judge.

C.W. appeals from an adjudication of delinquency and imposition of community control for armed burglary of a structure, possession of burglary tools, and petit theft. We reverse C.W.’s adjudication and disposition for petit theft because the State failed to establish the corpus delicti of the offense without C.W.’s confession. In all other respects, we affirm.

This case arose from C.W. breaking into an elementary school. C.W. confessed to using a crowbar to break into the school and going into the teacher’s lounge. While in the teacher’s lounge, he took a steak knife out…