In the Interest of Kelly

UHLENHOPP, Justice.

This appeal involves the propriety of an order placing a child in the Iowa Training School for Boys and the constitutionality of a statute denying a stay pending the child’s appeal.

Jeffrey Scott Kelly, born February 8, 1959, lived with his mother and stepfather in Keokuk, Iowa, at the inception of these proceedings. In 1973 the county attorney filed a petition charging that Jeffrey was dependent, neglected, and delinquent. The county attorney twice amended the petition, and on July 19, 1974, a judge of juvenile court (Hendrickson, J.) held a hearing and found Jeffrey to be…