In Re Cox

These are two separate cases with the same fact situations in which two brothers, while under the age of eighteen, were found delinquent by the juvenile court but left the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, before they could be sent to the Ohio youth commission. They both returned to the jurisdiction of the juvenile court after they were over the age of twenty-one. Both brothers, appellants herein, are appealing the order of the juvenile court whieh committed both of them to the Mahoning County jail for a period of six months, pursuant to R. C. 2151.355 (I).

These cases raise the question,…