Case Name: STATE of Louisiana in the Interest of Ellis Ray HANDY
Court: Louisiana Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1990-02-21
Citations: 559 So. 2d 795
Docket Number: No. KJ 89 1045
Parties: STATE of Louisiana in the Interest of Ellis Ray HANDY.
Judges: Before EDWARDS, LANIER and FOIL, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 559
Pages: 795–801

Head Matter:
STATE of Louisiana in the Interest of Ellis Ray HANDY.
No. KJ 89 1045.
Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.
Feb. 21, 1990.
Wiley Dial, Baton Rouge, for plaintiff-ap-pellee State of La.
James Best, Baton Rouge, for defendant-appellant Ellie Ray Handy.
Before EDWARDS, LANIER and FOIL, JJ.

Opinion:
EDWARDS, Judge.
Ellis Ray Handy was charged by juvenile petition as delinquent on the basis of commission of attempted aggravated rape, a violation of La.R.S. 14:27 and 42. After an adjudicatory hearing, the juvenile was found to be delinquent based upon the commission of attempted aggravated sexual battery, a violation of La.R.S. 14:27 and 43.2. Subsequently, a dispositional hearing was held, after which the juvenile was committed to the custody of the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections for one year.
The juvenile has appealed, alleging as his only assigned error that the evidence is not sufficient to support the adjudication. However, due to error patent on the face of the record, we pretermit discussion of that argument.
The petition herein charged that the juvenile committed attempted aggravated rape. The juvenile was adjudicated delinquent based upon a finding that he had committed attempted aggravated sexual battery, which is not the conduct charged in the petition. See La.C.J.P. art. 73. Nor is it a lesser included offense of attempted aggravated rape. See La.R.S. 14:5, State in the Interest of Batiste, 367 So.2d 784 (La.1979).
The juvenile is clearly entitled under the due process and adequate notice guarantees of our state constitution to timely written notice, in advance of the adjudication hearing, of the specific charge or factual allegations against which he must defend himself. La. Const. Art. I, § 2 and 13; Batiste at 787. Compare State in the Interest of Gibson, 382 So.2d 1060 (La.App. 2nd Cir.), writ denied, 385 So.2d 275 (La.1980). Since the adjudicated offense is not the conduct charged in the petition nor a lesser included offense thereof, we note the defect as error patent. The adjudication is invalid and is hereby vacated, along with the resulting disposition.
Since the charged offense was attempted aggravated rape, an adjudication of delinquency based upon attempted aggravated sexual battery operates as an acquittal and bar of a second prosecution on the charge of attempted aggravated rape. Compare State in Interest of Rodrigues, 532 So.2d 481, 484 (La.App. 1st Cir.1988). However, since this reversal does not re-suit from evidentiary insufficiency or constitute a decision that the state failed to prove its case, the double jeopardy clause does not bar further prosecution of the juvenile in connection with the alleged criminal activity. The only bar is as to a prosecution based upon attempted aggravated rape, the original charge herein. The juvenile, therefore, is ordered released. See Rodrigues at 484.
ADJUDICATION AND DISPOSITION VACATED; JUVENILE ORDERED RELEASED.
LANIER, J., dissents and assigns reasons.
. We acknowledge that no statutory provision affirmatively grants this Court authority to review juvenile delinquency matters for patent error, as does La.C.Cr.P. art. 920(2) for adult criminal proceedings. However, the patent error noted herein is of constitutional magnitude, seriously affecting the due process rights of the juvenile; and we will not ignore it. This Court previously has stated that it routinely reviews juvenile delinquency cases for patent error. State in Interest of McPipe, 542 So.2d 596, fn. 1 (La.App. 1st Cir.), writ denied, 548 So.2d 1244 (La.1989). Moreover, on several occasions, this Court has noted patent error in juvenile delinquency cases. See e.g. State in Interest of Wilkerson, 542 So.2d 577 (La.App. 1st Cir.1989); State in Interest of Rodrigues, 532 So.2d 481 (La.App. 1st Cir.1988).
. All of the elements of attempted aggravated sexual battery are not necessarily included within the elements of attempted aggravated rape. See La.R.S. 14:5, 42 and 43.2. Aggravated sexual battery includes the element of intentional infliction of serious bodily injury on the victim. See La.R.S. 14:43.2. Aggravated rape carries no such requirement. See La.R.S. 14:42. Accordingly, attempted aggravated sexual battery includes the element of attempting to intentionally inflict serious bodily injury upon the victim, while attempted aggravated rape (the offense charged herein) does not. Therefore, under La. R.S. 14:5, attempted aggravated sexual battery is not a lesser included offense of attempted aggravated rape.
Additionally, we note that, in criminal adult proceedings, attempted aggravated sexual battery is not responsive to a charge of attempted aggravated rape. See La.C.Cr.P. art. 814 A, paragraph 9.
. Compare State in Interest of Rodrigues, 532 So.2d 481 (La.App. 1st Cir.1988), also finding such an error to be error patent.