MacOn v. Holloway

In the absence of a juvenile court law, the petitioner would be subject to indictment and prosecution, in a court of competent jurisdiction, for any violation of law.

In establishing juvenile courts, the Legislature undertook to create a special tribunal for the handling of cases of juvenile defendants, in order to'relieve juvenile defendants under certain circumstances from the rigidity of the law prevailing in courts of more general jurisdiction and for other humane and worthy purposes.

By section 20 of the Acts 1920, p. 88, the Legislature provided in substance that if this specially created…