Landry v. State

I concur in the reversal of the judgment of the trial court and the remand of the cause; but, feeling that other serious questions are presented by this record, I add to the well-written opinion of our Chief Justice.

A fifteen-year-old boy was charged with being a delinquent child, the precise words used in the caption of the petition and order in this cause.1 He was charged with the violation of Art. 483, Vernon’s Ann.P. C.; and, had he been two years older, his maximum punishment would have been a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $500, or by confinement in jail not less than one…