Bruce A. M. v. Superior Court

By petitions for a writ of mandate and a writ of prohibition, petitioner, a 17-year-old minor, seeks to test the validity of an order of the juvenile court which granted the probation officer’s request that the charges set forth in a petition pending before the juvenile court be referred to the adult court and that petitioner be tried under the general law, as provided in section 707 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.

The following uncontroverted facts appear from the petitions and the return filed on behalf of respondent superior court and the People: On November 6, 1968 a complaint was…