State v. Gonzalez

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE JAMES T. HARRISON,

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

On March 17, 1961, the county attorney of Ravalli County, Montana, filed a petition in the district court charging Frank Gonzalez, a minor child sixteen years of age, with being a delinquent child within the provisions of sections 10-601 to 10-633, incl., R.CM.1947, and in support of such charge al leged that the minor on or about March 10, 1961, committed the crime of illegal possession of beer.

From the minutes of the court it appears that on the same day the minor was present before the court with his parents and also…