A Juvenile v. Commonwealth (No. 1)

A juvenile, as petitioner, on July 2,1979, applied to a single justice of this court to use the court’s supervisory powers, G. L. c. 211, § 3, to stay his trial in the Superior Court, county of Suffolk, set to begin that day, on charges of raping a child under the age of sixteen (G. L. c. 265, § 22A). He contended that the trial would be unlawful and ultimately futile because of certain infirmities in the procedure by which his case was ordered transferred from the Boston Juvenile Court to the Superior Court, to be handled there as if the petitioner were an adult (G. L. c. 119, § 61); he…