L. D. F. v. State

OPINION

BRETT, Judge.

L. D. F., a juvenile, appeals from the order of the Juvenile Division of the District Court, Pittsburg County, waiving jurisdiction over him and empowering the State to prosecute him as an adult for the crime of Manslaughter in the First Degree.

The incident out of which the charge arose occurred on March 21,1975, when the appellant was sixteen years of age. On October 8, 1975, a petition was filed alleging the appellant to be a delinquent. On September 16, 1976, after the appellant had become eighteen years of age, the Assistant District Attorney filed a motion to certify…