Jeffers v. State

This proceeding was commenced in the Circuit Court for Queen Anne’s County, sitting as a Juvenile Court, in October, 1952, on the petition of Elva Mae Stanford, a resident of that county, alleging that her daughter, Iris Stanford, age 10, was a “dependent child” within the meaning of the Maryland Juvenile Court Act, Code 1951, art. 26, sec. 51, for the reason that the child’s father, James Albert Jeffers, a resident of Baltimore, had failed to contribute to her support since December 26, 1948.

In November, 1952, a summons for Jeffers was returned non est. In February, 1953, another summons was…