S S v. State

The minor female petitioners, one nearly 16 years of age and the other 14%j were committed to the Stevens School for the term of their minority in the District Court sitting as a Juvenile Court. 15 M. R.S.A. §§ 2611(4, par. B), 2714. Their commitment to the School followed an adjudication by the Judge of the Juvenile Court that they had committed the juvenile offense of “living in circumstances of manifest danger of falling into habits of vice or immorality.” 15 M.R.S.A. § 2552. They respectively instituted petitions for a writ of habeas corpus to set aside their “conviction” (adjudication of…