In RE PIGG v. State

This is an appeal from a determination by the Hamilton County Juvenile Court that appellant, a female, then fifteen years of age, was a delinquent child due to truancy.

*330After receiving information from the principal of appellant’s school concerning the absence of appellant from school and after making preliminary inquiry, the juvenile court ordered the probation officer to file a petition pursuant to Acts 1945, .ch. 356, § 8, as amended by Acts 1959, ch. 76, § 1, the same being Burns’ Ind. Stat. Ann. § 9-3208. The petition alleged that appellant was a delinquent child due to truancy. The…