Doe v. State

OPINION

SOSA, Justice.

The Honorable Joseph C. Ryan, District Judge of the Children’s Court of the Second Judicial District, removed himself from a case involving delinquent acts on the part of a minor. Thereafter, by consent of the parties, Mary Walters was appointed to sit as judge designate of the case; and, while sitting as judge designate, she dismissed the petition alleging delinquency. The State appealed the dismissal to the Court of Appeals. That court then instructed the parties to brief the issue of Mary Walters’ authority to preside over the case, and held that she acted without the…