Case Name: K.J., a juvenile, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1990-02-13
Citations: 557 So. 2d 134
Docket Number: No. 89-1758
Parties: K.J., a juvenile, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: Before HUBBART, COPE and GODERICH, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 557
Pages: 134–135

Head Matter:
K.J., a juvenile, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 89-1758.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
Feb. 13, 1990.
Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender,, and Carlos A. Canet, Asst. Public Defender, for appellant.
Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., and Monique T. Befeler, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.
Before HUBBART, COPE and GODERICH, JJ.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
The respondent appeals an adjudication of delinquency for possession of cannabis with the intent to sell after a denial of his motion for judgment of acquittal.
In this case the juvenile was observed in actual possession of a large brown paper bag in which was found five little brown paper bags which in turn contained several manila envelopes bearing a total amount of 29.8 grams of marijuana. The respondent dropped the bags and ran from one room of the house to another when the police arrived to execute the search warrant. This fact supports the conclusion that the respondent knew that the packages contained marijuana. Further, the juvenile was arrested on the premises where a marijuana purchase had been made the previous day by an undercover officer in which the same types of packages had been used.
There is sufficient circumstantial evidence of the juvenile's intent to sell the marijuana. The large amount of marijuana and the way it was packaged supports the inference that it was not intended for defendant's personal use but rather for resale. See Evans v. State, 368 So.2d 58 (Fla. 1st DCA 1978) (inference that marijuana was not for personal use but rather for resale arises from the way it was packaged); K.M. v. State, 545 So.2d 464 (Fla. 3d DCA 1989) (packaging in addition to quan tity of drugs is circumstantial evidence of intent to sell).
Affirmed.