State v. Bill

The issue in these cases is whether defendants, who were seventeen years of age at the time their respective alleged acts occurred, are entitled to be treated as juveniles under RSA ch. 169 as amended by Laws 1973, 578:1, effective September 3, 1973. The issue arises because of an apparent inconsistency between RSA 169:1 (Supp. 1973) which states that the chapter is applicable to delinquent children as defined in “subparagraph (a) of RSA 169:2, II under the age of seventeen ...” and RSA 169:2 III (Supp. 1973) which defines a delinquent child as one “whose... act or acts of delinquency were…