Longshore v. State

Hall, Justice.

This case questions whether Longshore, charged with murder, is subject to the jurisdiction of the superior court or the juvenile court.

Longshore, aged 16, was arrested and jailed January 22,1977, and charged with the murder of his father and aggravated assault upon his mother. The night of the arrest, the county juvenile court judge was summoned to the jail and issued five orders authorizing photographing, urinalysis, fingerprinting,, and blood tfesting of Longshore, and appointing for him a guardian ad litem. No petition alleging delinquency (see Code Ann. § 24A-1603) was ever…