In re Gilder

This appeal is from an order of the lower court sustaining a demurrer to a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The petitioner has appealed.

The facts alleged in the petition are substantially as follows: That, on February 19, 1916, the juvenile branch of the superior court of Spokane county found the petitioner, Pearl Gilder, to be a juvenile delinquent, and ordered her “committed as a juvenile delinquent to the care of the . . . House of the Good Shepherd until she . . . should reach the age of twenty-one years, or until further order of said court;” that thereafter, and ever since said…