Gast v. State

A delinquency petition was filed against seventeen year old Jeffrey Allen Gast. On the same day a petition to waive juvenile jurisdiction was filed. Hearing was held pursuant to the version of IC 1971, 31-5-7-14 existing prior to the 1975 amendments. Waiver was ordered, and Gast appeals challenging the sufficiency of the findings and the evidence to support them. We reverse.

At the hearing the state established that there was prosecu-tive merit for the alleged act of delinquency, delivery of a controlled substance. However, neither prosecutive merit nor appellant’s age are sufficient to…