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D. D. S., a juvenile, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
    No. 78-693.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
    Jan. 6, 1981.
    Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender, and Elliot H. Scherker, Asst. Public Defender, for appellant.
    Jim Smith,- Atty. Gen., and Steven R. Jacob, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.
    Before HUBBART, C. J., NESBITT, J., and MELVIN, WOODROW M. (Ret.), Associate Judge.
   PER CURIAM.

Appellant’s adjudication of delinquency is reversed on a finding that the circumstantial evidence relied upon by the state was not shown to be inconsistent with a reasonable hypothesis of innocence. Circumstantial evidence did not rise to that reasonable certainty that the accused committed the offense. Pate v. State, 72 Fla. 97, 72 So. 517 (1916); see also, 13 Fla.Jur. Evidence § 417 and cases cited therein.

Reversed.