State v. Jackson

I «SUSAN M. CHEHARDY, Judge.

This appeal presents a novel issue: Whether a district judge correctly quashed an indictment because the defendant was a juvenile not subject to district court jurisdiction during part of the stated date range for occurrence of the offense. The State has appealed, asserting the district court erred in refusing to allow the State to amend the indictment to limit the date range to a period after the defendant was old enough to be subject to the jurisdiction of the district court. We affirm.

On May 8, 2003, the Jefferson Parish grand jury returned an indictment…