Lowry v. Commonwealth

MONTGOMERY, Judge.

Donnie E. Lowry appeals from a judgment of conviction of grand larceny. He was sentenced to serve one year in the penitentiary. The question involved on the appeal is whether the circuit court had jurisdiction to try the appellant on an indictment made after he became eighteen years of age, when he was under that age at the time of the offense and no proceeding had been commenced in the juvenile session of the county court prior to his becoming eighteen years of age.

The appellant is charged with stealing $100 from a service station on January 16, 1967. At that time-appellant…