Reyes v. State

OPINION ON APPELLANT’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

W.C. DAVIS, Judge.

Petitioner, a juvenile, was charged in a delinquency petition with attempted murder. The State filed a motion in the juvenile court, asking it to waive jurisdiction and transfer petitioner to the district court for trial as an adult. The juvenile court, after conducting a hearing on the State’s motion, apparently refused to waive jurisdiction on the basis that there was no sufficient evidence on which a grand jury would be expected to return an indictment. The State then filed a motion for rehearing which the juvenile…