In Re Pierson

This is an action brought by the State of Indiana under the provisions of “An Act concerning juvenile courts” approved March 13, 1941. The affidavit upon which the proceeding rests was filed on the juvenile side of the Sullivan Circuit Court on March 15, 1943, and in substance alleges that on said date Alex Akers, Jr., a boy under the full age of 18 years, was a delinquent, as that term is defined by said act, in that on the 13th day of March, 1943, in the county of Sullivan, he took and drove away an automobile without the consent of the owner thereof. The same day upon which this charge was…