C.J.W. v. State

SALCINES, Judge.

C.J.W. challenges his adjudication of delinquency for the offense of criminal mischief. He maintains that the circumstantial evidence in this case was insufficient to rupport the adjudication. We agree and reverse.

The State filed a petition of delinquency alleging that C.J.W. and his brother, J.W., had committed a burglary and criminal mischief. The charges in the petition stemmed from the unauthorized entry into a closed and locked clubhouse located at the River Bay Mobile Home Park in Tampa and the damage done to a candy machine located therein. The case proceeded to a trial…