Fare v. Danny T.

Opinion

BIRD, C. J.

Danny T. appeals from orders of the juvenile court adjudging him a ward and committing him to the California Youth Authority. He contends that his petition for a hearing de novo before a juvenile court judge should have been deemed granted. This court agrees.

A petition was filed in juvenile court alleging that appellant, a minor, had brandished a hoe at a man whom he mistakenly thought was a “narc.” After a contested jurisdictional hearing before a referee, at which witnesses’ testimony was conflicting, appellant was found to have violated Penal Code section 417. He was…