In Re Application of Tahbel
California Court of Appeal
PROCEEDING- on Habeas Corpus to secure the release of a minor detained in a juvenile home for refusal to answer incriminating questions. Minor discharged. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtFinlayson, P. J.
By his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, the petitioner, Henry Tahbel, father of Bodo Tahbel, a boy fifteen years of age, seeks his son’s release from “Juvenile Hall,” a detention home, in the city of Los Angeles, established under the juvenile court law as a place for the confinement of delinquent minors, and to which the boy was committed for refusing to answer certain questions when a witness in the juvenile court. The boy’s refusals to answer were made upon the ground that by his answers he might incriminate himself.
On January 19, 1920, there was filed in the juvenile court for Los…
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