Ex Parte Griggs v. Superintendent of Colony for Feeble-Minded & Epileptic

Under section 1546, Revised Statutes 1909, the Prosecuting Attorney of Audrain County, Missouri, on March 26,1917, filed an information before a Justice of the Peace of that county, charging petitioner, (then a female child of thirteen years, having been born on December 20, 1903), with being incorrigible to such extent that she could not be controlled by her parents and guardian in whose custody she had been, and with unlawfully associating with immoral, criminal, bad and vicious persons and with associating with male persons with whom she had sexual intercourse, and alleging that unless she…