State v. Gammill

Meyer, J.:

The appellant, Gary Gammill (defendant), was taken into custody February 2, 1977, in Galena, Kansas, and subsequently transported to Crawford County and placed in detention in the Children’s Court Center in Pittsburg, Kansas. While going through intake procedures at the center, the Crawford County sheriff seized certain pubic hairs from the defendant by plucking them from his body and also took a wristwatch. On February 8, 1977, the defendant was ordered by the district court to be tried as an adult under authority of K.S.A. 38-808. Subsequent thereto, a complaint and information…