Legal Opinion
State v. Wilson
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided December 20, 1979PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GLASSMAN, Justice.
The defendant was convicted of night hunting, 12 M.R.S.A. § 2455, 1 following a jury trial in the Superior Court, Knox County. After imposition of the mandatory sentence,-the defendant, who was seventeen years of age at the time of the offense, appealed, challenging the statutory scheme which excludes the offense of night hunting from the jurisdiction of the juvenile court. We affirm the judgment.
The jurisdiction of the juvenile court is established by 15 M.R.S.A. § 3101(2) which provides in pertinent part:
A. The juvenile court shall have exclusive original jurisdiction,…
2Cases cited14 opinions
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3Cited by10 opinions
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