Akers v. State

It is strenuously urged by counsel for defendant that the Common Pleas Court had no jurisdiction of the subject matter and of the person of the defendant by reason of the fact that the Juvenile Court Act, 1639 GC, et seq. has, by implication, deprived courts of Common Pleas of their heretofore well recognized right of jurisdiction in such cases.

It does not seems in this case that the defendant was at any time brought before a committing magistrate, but that the grand jury of Cuyahoga County, upon its own instance, caused the defendant to be indicted. Had the defendant been before a committing…