State v. R.L.B.

SHARP, Judge.

The state appeals from a dismissal of its case against R.L.B. for failure to file a petition for delinquency within two weeks after entry of the trial court’s order requiring such a filing.1 However, forty-five days had not passed between the time that *819R.L.B. was taken into custody and the court’s dismissal of the case.

R.L.B. was taken into custody on a retail theft charge on August 3, 1984. The trial court ordered that the state file a delinquency petition within two weeks of the arraignment, which was held on August 6, 1984. On August 31, 1984, the court dismissed the case for…