State v. Little

The question is whether the state can try a person after he attains the age of sixteen for a crime alleged to have been committed before he reached that age.

The defendant had been taken into custody on November 18, 1964, as a child within the jurisdiction of the juvenile court. At all times thereafter the defendant was represented by counsel. Juvenile court jurisdiction was based upon a petition which accused the defendant of killing a girl on November 2, 1964, in the course of committing rape. On November 20, 1964, the grand jury indicted the defendant for murder. On December 20, 1964, the…