State v. Powers

The facts relevant to disposition of this criminal

appeal may be stated briefly. After trial by court, respondent was convicted of taking a wild deer by artificial light, in violation of 10 V.S.A. § 4747. At the time of the alleged offense, respondent was only 18 days over the age of 16; he filed a motion for transfer of the case to juvenile court under 83 V.S.A. § 635, asking for hearing on the merits, which was denied by docket entry and refusal to make findings on the issue. These denials, he claims, constituted abuse of discretion, violated the principles of the applicable juvenile…