Matter of Murphy

These appeals concern waiver of jurisdiction in juvenile causes under Code, Art. 26, § 70-16.

Matter of Waters, 13 Md. App, 95, made clear that the purposes of a preliminary hearing were not the purposes of a waiver hearing. We said that “* * * the sole function of the [waiver] hearing is to resolve the question of waiver vel non and that this is done on the assumption that probably the crime alleged was committed and that the juvenile committed it.” We held: “Thus the State has no burden at the hearing to establish prima facie or otherwise corpus delicti and criminal agency.” At 103. We…