D.W.B. v. State

D.W.B. appeals from the orders of the juvenile court dismissing without prejudice *397a delinquency petition and an accompanying petition for waiver of juvenile court jurisdiction. The dismissal orders were made at the state's request and were premised upon the fact that D.W.B. did not appear in the action until after he had attained eighteen years of age. Believing that it had either lost, or never obtained, jurisdiction over D.W.B., the juvenile court dismissed the petitions. We reverse the juvenile court's orders, concluding that the action had been duly commenced under sec. 48.12(2), Stats.,…