After trial in the Juvenile Court without a jury, appellant was found to have violated our statute forbidding the unauthorized use of a motor vehicle. D.C.Code 1967, § 22-2204. This appeal raises several questions, but only one requires our consideration.
In finding appellant to be “involved”, the court stated that it found that
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appellant “was a passenger in what has been established to have been a stolen car.” This finding was insufficient to establish a violation of the statute. One does not violate the statute by merely being a passenger in a stolen car. There must be proof that the accused had “guilty knowledge of the unauthorized use.” Jones v. United States,
Reversed.