Morton v. Hayden

(Dissenting opinion.)

I am unable to agree with my associates. My opinion is that the petitioner was illegally sentenced and is entitled to be enlarged from his confinement in the reformatory for men.

The petitioner was between the ages of 16 and 17 years when he was arraigned in the municipal court, sitting as a juvenile court, upon the charge of having feloniously uttered and published as true a false, forged and counterfeit instrument. Upon trial, he was found guilty of juvenile *19delinquency and committed to the reformatory for men. He filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus alleging…