State v. Loyd

Kelly, Justice.

Defendant, Stanley Loyd, age 16, appeals from a conviction of aggravated robbery in Hennepin County District Court after he had been referred by the juvenile court for adult prosecution. The issues presented concern the admissibility in a criminal prosecution of a confession given by a juvenile before the juvenile court has waived its jurisdiction and referred him to be prosecuted as an adult. We affirm.

The events leading to defendant’s arrest and ultimate convic tion involve the assault and robbery at gunpoint of two elderly widows on the evening of February 15, 1971. Four…