State Ex Rel. White v. District Court of Milwaukee County

The question presented on this appeal is whether a criminal court had jurisdiction over relator by reason of the issuance of a warrant and the setting of a date for preliminary hearing at the time the juvenile court assumed jurisdiction and entered its judgment of December 6, 1951.

Under the provision of the statutes hereinafter quoted, criminal courts and the juvenile court are given concurrent jurisdiction over “children between the ages of sixteen and eighteen who have committed a crime.” In a case in which ‘two courts are given concurrent jurisdiction over a particular subject matter, and…