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Facts

• The case involves a child appellant who was found by the district court to have committed four delinquent acts. Among the allegations was that the child appellant had bitten his younger brother, causing him to cry. The incident led to the child's detention and subsequent legal proceedings to determine the delinquency of the acts committed.

Procedural History

• [Not applicable or not found]

Parties' Submissions

• Appellant: The child appellant argued that the State failed to prove jurisdiction because proof of venue was a mandatory precondition to the exercise of the district court’s jurisdiction. Additionally, the appellant contended that his arrest was unlawful due to a lack of probable cause at the time of detention and argued that the evidence was insufficient to prove that he had battered his brother.
• Appellee: The State, as appellee, maintained that the district court had jurisdiction, the arrest (detention) of the child appellant was lawful, and there was sufficient evidence to support the finding that the child appellant had committed the delinquent acts, including battery of his younger brother.

Legal Issues

• Whether the State failed to prove jurisdiction due to lack of proof of venue.
• Whether the arrest of the child appellant was unlawful due to no probable cause at the time of detention.
• Whether there was sufficient evidence to prove that the child appellant had battered his brother.

Disposition

• The Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment of the district court, which found the child appellant had committed four delinquent acts.

Reasons

• Per Jonathan B. Sutin, with Roderick T. Kennedy, Chief Judge, and M. Monica Zamora, Judge concurring:
  The court addressed the appellant's claim regarding the State's failure to prove jurisdiction by stating that the district court was permitted to take judicial notice of the location of the incident, which satisfied the requirement for establishing venue (para 2).
  Regarding the lawfulness of the appellant's arrest, the court found that the officer had initially detained the appellant for investigatory purposes to prevent him from fleeing, which was within legal bounds. The court differentiated between detention for investigation and an arrest, finding the officer's actions justified (para 3).
  On the sufficiency of the evidence regarding the battery charge, the court outlined the two-step process for reviewing evidence sufficiency and determined that, based on the evidence presented, a rational trier of fact could find beyond a reasonable doubt that the appellant had committed battery against his brother. The court noted the appellant's violent conduct upon the officers' arrival and the fact-finder's discretion to reject conflicting testimony as factors supporting the sufficiency of the evidence (paras 4-6).