In Re Application of Tassey

Petitioner was sentenced to confinement in the state prison at San Quentin upon plea of guilty to the crime of robbery committed October 11, 1926. Petitioner is a minor of the age of fifteen years and under sixteen years. At the time he appeared before the superior court he made known to the court his age, but the court nevertheless proceeded with the ease as though he were an adult, without determining the defendant’s age and without the defendant’s offense having been previously submitted to the juvenile court.

Apparently the petitioner passed through the justice’s court without the…