Legal Opinion

State ex rel. Bearden

Louisiana Court of Appeal

Decided February 25, 1980No. 14072PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

HALL, Judge.

The juvenile court having failed to have the delinquency hearing reported or recorded and transcribed as required by LSA-R.S. 13:1579 (applicable on the date of the hearing in 1978), and there being no legal authority for substituting a narrative of facts prepared by the trial judge for a verbatim transcript of the evidence as was done here, the adjudication of delinquency and commitment of the appellant juvenile (execution of which was suspended pending appeal) is reversed and set aside. See LSA-R.S. 13:1579; State of Louisiana in Interest of Wagster, 348 So.2d 753 (La.App. 1st…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. State, in Interest of AaronLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1972
  2. In re State ex rel. CollinsLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1973
  3. State ex rel. WagsterLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1977

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. State ex rel. BellLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1982

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