State v. Knowles

WERNICK, Justice.

Defendant Richard P. Knowles has appealed from a judgment of conviction entered February 3, 1976 in the Superior Court (Penobscot County) upon a jury verdict (of January 30,1976) finding defendant guilty, as charged by indictment, of the crime of “Kidnapping While Armed with a Firearm” (17 M.R.S.A. § 2051-A). 1

We deny the appeal.

Defendant committed the crime in question on November 28, 1974 when he was 17 years of age and thus a “juvenile” for the purposes of 15 M.R.S.A. §§ 2501 et seq. 2 Pursuant to 15 M.R.S.A. § 2601' et seq., a juvenile petition alleging commission of the…