People v. Fields

Andrew B. Fields was charged when he was 16 years old with committing the offenses of breaking and entering and of uttering and publishing. On petition of the prosecuting attorney the probate judge waived jurisdiction to the circuit court.

Fields appealed the orders of waiver to the circuit court claiming that the provision of the Probate Code authorizing a probate judge to waive jurisdiction of a child between the ages of 15 and 17 to a court of general criminal jurisdiction (i.e., the circuit or recorder’s court) was unconstitutional because the Legislature had not prescribed standards to…