Case ID: so2d_572/html/1019-01.html
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Author: {"author": "\n      LETTS, Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

In the Interest of M.H., a child.
    No. 89-1378.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
    Jan. 9, 1991.
    Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender, Susan D. Cline, Asst. Public Defender and Thomas A. Genung, Certified Legal Intern, West Palm Beach, for appellant.
    Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and James J. Carney, Asst. Atty. Gen., West Palm Beach, for appellee, State of Fla.
   LETTS, Judge.

This is an appeal from an adjudication of delinquency for arson. The applicable statute, section 806.01(1), Florida Statutes (1989), provides:

(1) Any person who willfully and unlawfully, by fire or explosion, damages or causes to be damaged:
(b) Any structure, or contents thereof, where persons are normally present ... is guilty of arson in the first degree. (Emphasis supplied).

In the matter sub judice, no evidence whatsoever was adduced as to damage. As a consequence, this cause must be reversed.

REVERSED.