The Juvenile Court of Clayton County adjudicated 16-year-old M. D. P. delinquent based upon acts that would have constituted the crimes of armed robbery1 and aggravated assault2 if committed by an adult, and the court committed him to the custody of the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice until his 21st birthday. M. D. P. appeals, contending that the evidence presented was insufficient to support an adjudication of delinquency based upon armed robbery.3 Finding no error, we affirm. With respect to the sufficiency of the evidence supporting a juvenile court adjudication of delinquency, we apply the same standard of review that is used in any criminal case by construing the evidence in favor of the adjudication to determine if a rational trier of fact could have found beyond a reasonable doubt that the juvenile committed the acts charged. In the instant case, we must construe the testimony of the witnesses at the delinquency hearing in favor of the delinquency adjudication .4 So viewed, the evidence showed that between 9:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. on September 22, 2007, M. D. P. approached another minor, Q. W. and asked him if he wanted to “hit a lick,” a term meaning rob someone. M. D. P. also showed Q. W. a gun. The two stood in the bushes until they saw a man, Jody Jackson, riding his bike down the street. Q. W. knocked Jackson off the bike by hitting him with a stick. Once Jackson fell off the bike, M. D. P. hit Jackson in the head with the gun, held him in a choke hold, and demanded that he turn over his money. M. D. P. and Q. W. then checked Jackson’s pockets and took his keys, some change, and a few novelty coins. At the delinquency hearing, Jackson testified that during the encounter he recognized one of the two minors as “Pooh,” whom he identified as M. D. P., a boy he had known for quite some time from living in the neighborhood. Jackson also testified that he recognized Pooh’s voice during the encounter and confirmed he had heard Pooh’s voice prior to the robbery.
In addition to Jackson’s own testimony of the encounter, Q. W. testified that M. D. P. approached him to participate in a robbery, that M. D. P. had a gun and that after Q. W. knocked Jackson off the bike, M. D. P. hit Jackson in the head with the gun and checked his pockets. At the hearing, Q. W.’s brother, C. W., identified M. D. P. as Pooh and testified that later the same evening M. D. P. bragged to him that he and Q. W. had robbed “some white man.”
