State v. City Court of City of Billings

On Petition for Rehearing

MR. JUSTICE SHEEHY.

On August 20, 1982, we held that petitioner Lloyd Scott Maier, a minor, was not entitled to an order from us allowing him to withdraw his guilty plea in the City Court Billings, Montana, in answer to a charge of traffic violation, (1982), Mont., 662 P.2d 276, 39 St.Rep. 1560.

The sole issue presented to this Court by the petitioners in the 1982 case was whether Maier, as a minor was incompetent to appear in the City Court on the traffic charge without a parent, guardian, or attorney and there enter a plea of guilty. It was contended that the city…