State ex rel. Courtney

EDWARDS, Judge.

These consolidated cases raise the issue of whether the trial court correctly found two minors to be delinquents because of their participation in an altercation with a police officer.

On the night of December 31, 1980, Officer Edward Humphries of the Slidell Police Department responded to complaints that fireworks were being discharged within the Slidell city limits. Officer Humphries made two stops to request that persons shooting fireworks within the city limits refrain from doing so. When he resumed patrolling in his vehicle, he observed three individuals preparing to…