Flowers v. Haugh

McCORMICK, Justice.

The question in this case is whether an adult can be held in the men’s reformatory under a juvenile court commitment order. Trial court held plaintiff was entitled to be released. We affirm.

Plaintiff Anthony Curtis Flowers was born January 7, 1953. On May 1, 1964, he was adjudicated a delinquent child and committed to the training school at Eldora under § 232.21, The Code, 1962. He remained there until June 9, 1970, when the director of child and family services for the department of social services requested approval of an order to transfer him to the men’s reformatory at…