Madaras v. State

GARRARD, Judge.

On November 3, 1980, the St. Joseph County Probate Court, sitting in its juvenile court capacity, found Martha Quiroz Madar- as to be a delinquent child and entered a dispositional decree ordering that she be confined in the St. Joseph County Jail for seven days. Madaras does not challenge the court’s finding of delinquency. She does assert that (1) the court’s dispositional decree was punitive in nature and thus vio-lative of IC 31-6-4-16(d), (2) the court abused its discretion in entering its decree for seven days confinement, and (3) the court erred in failing to accompany…