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In the Interest of E.G.W.

Evidence that the juvenile and his cohort were the only people near the victim when her purse was stolen and that they both fled the scene was sufficient to sustain the juvenile court's finding that both boys were delinquent.

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E. G. W. was adjudicated delinquent based on a charge of theft by taking. On appeal, he enumerates only the general grounds. Viewed in the light most favorable to the juvenile court’s findings, the evidence showed that a woman was shopping at a grocery store when she noticed two young men, one of whom was E. G. W., follow and watch her closely through five aisles of shopping. As she came to the end of the fifth aisle, she momentarily turned her back on the boys and reached for some meat. When she turned around only seconds later, her purse was missing from her grocery cart and the two boys were walking away from her. No one else was in the aisle.

When the woman looked at the boys, the boys immediately began running. She reported to the store manager that the boys had stolen her purse, and the manager was able only to apprehend E. G. W., who did not have the purse but had some candy hidden in his pants leg, apparently stolen from the aisle. The boy who escaped wore a jacket large enough to conceal the victim’s purse. Some time later this boy was also apprehended but did not possess the purse. Both boys were charged and found delinquent.

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