Legal Opinion
Wise v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Decided May 4, 1973No. 17405PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BREWSTER, Justice.
This is an appeal by the minor, Mary Ruth Wise, from a decree adjudging her to be a delinquent child and awarding her custody to the Chief Probation Officer of Tarrant County. The trial was non-jury.
Article 2338-1, Vernon’s Ann.Civ.St., provides in part: “The term ‘delinquent child’ means any child who (a) violates any penal law of this state of the grade of felony; or (b) violates any penal law of this state of the grade of misdemeanor or where the punishment prescribed for such offense may be by confinement in jail; . . ."
The petition filed in this case by the…
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