State v. Walker

ST. PAUL, Justice.

The defendant was convicted of breaking and entering in the daytime.

After conviction, but before sentence, he moved to set aside the conviction on the ground that the district court had no jurisdiction over him by reason of his being under the age of 17 years at the time the alleged offense was committed. The trial judge overruled his motion and sentenced him to three years in the penitentiary. Wherefore he appeals.

He complains that on the trial of his exception to the jurisdiction the judge admitted evidence that, on the occasion of some previous minor juvenile delinquency,…