Keenum v. State

BRIOKEN, Presiding Judge..Counsel for appellant in the court below raised the question of the jurisdiction of that court to try and determine this case, insisting that the defendant was under the age of sixteen years at the time of the alleged commission of the offense charged in the complaint. In this connection it was insisted that the jurisdiction of the person rested only in the juvenile court by virtue of the statute which provides: “Whenever a child under sixteen years of age is brought before a magistrate of any court in the county other than the juvenile court, * * * such magistrate…