People v. Turja
Michigan Supreme Court
Certiorari to justice’s court of the city of Hancock; Olivier, J. Hannah Turja was convicted in justice’s court of being a disorderly juvenile offender, and sentenced to confinement in the industrial school for girls at Adrian until she attained the age of 21 years.
1Opinion of the CourtMcAlvay, J.
Respondent was charged January 20, 1909, on complaint of her father, before a justice of the *531peace, with being “a disorderly juvenile offender, in that she neglected and refused to go to school and was a truant and is an unmanageable child, contrary to the form of the statute.”
She was, at the time, of the age of 14 years and 8 months. A warrant was at once issued returnable forthwith, and placed in the hands of a deputy sheriff. She was taken into custody on January 29th and brought into court. The county agent of the State board of corrections and charities was then for the first time…
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