State v. Roberts

Plaintiff-appellant, State of Indiana (State), brings this appeal alleging that the trial court erred when it granted the motion to dismiss and for immediate discharge of defendant-appellee, Michael D. Roberts (Roberts) and discharged and released Roberts from custody.

We affirm.

The facts pertinent to this appeal follow. Roberts had been in lawful custody at the Indiana Boys’ School from which he had escaped several times prior to an escape on June 23, 1974. As a consequence of the latter escape, a petition was filed in the Hendricks Circuit Court, exercising juvenile jurisdiction, seeking to…