State v. Hodges

HOWE, Justice:

¶ 1 This is an interlocutory appeal from the district court’s order that it has jurisdiction over the criminal prosecution of defendant, who had reached his twenty-first birthday when the proceedings were commenced, but who was under age eighteen at the time of his alleged crimes.

BACKGROUND

¶ 2 The State charges that defendant Daniel Lamont Hodges committed six first degree felony crimes involving sexual abuse of a child when Hodges was younger than eighteen years old. The alleged victim reported the crimes about three months prior to defendant’s twenty-first birthday. The State…