State v. Anderson

DENNIS, Justice.

This court granted certiorari to decide whether a court’s juvenile jurisdiction includes the jurisdiction to determine whether a person accused of criminal non-support of a child is the parent of that child.

Defendant, Edward Joseph Anderson, was charged with criminal neglect of a minor child, La.R.S. 14:74, in the Juvenile Court for the Parish of Orleans. The charge was dismissed, on Anderson’s motion, by the juvenile court, which ruled that it lacked jurisdiction to decide whether Anderson was the parent of the child. On writs granted, the court of appeal, 501 So.2d 828,…