State ex rel. Bodkins v. Cook

TOMLIN, Judge.

These two cases have been consolidated for presentation to this Court. Both juveniles, at the time their petitions were filed, were confined by the Department of Correction at Spencer Youth Center in Davidson County. Bodkins had been committed to the department from Gibson County, and England had been committed from Macon County. Each inmate filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus in the Chancery Court of Davidson County, alleging that the relief afforded them under the Juvenile Post-Commitment Procedures Act was inappropriate and ineffective, and that their commitment to the…