Legal Opinion

In the Interest of Eugene M.

Supreme Court of South Carolina

Decided December 10, 1985No. 22420Published

1Per curiam

Appellant was adjudicated delinquent as a result of trespassing, malicious injury to personal property, arson, and *313joyriding charges filed against him in family court. The family court ordered restitution of $1,818.94 and committed appellant to the Department of Youth Services for an indeterminate period not to exceed his twenty-first birthday. We remand for resentencing.

A juvenile adjudicated delinquent may be punished only under the alternatives of S. C. Code Ann. § 20-7-1330 (1976). Matter of Westbrooks, 277 S. C. 410, 288 S. E. (2d) 395 (1982); Matter of Skinner, 272 S. C. 135, 249 S. E.…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. State v. CamprellSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1982
  2. Matter of SkinnerSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1978

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