Baker v. State

The six appellants, ranging in age from fourteen to sixteen years, were brought before the Magistrate for Juvenile Causes for Prince George’s County on January 19, 1954, charged, upon petitions of the Superintendent of Boys’ Village of Maryland, as juvenile delinquents by reason of their escape from Boys’ Village, to which they had each been committed as a juvenile delinquent by the Judge of the Circuit Court of Baltimore City, Division of Juvenile Causes. Jurisdiction was waived by the Magistrate, acting under Section 927 of Everstine’s Code of Public Local Laws of Prince George’s County…