State Ex Rel. Bolin v. Bruce

BRUNOT, Justice.

This is an appeal by the.defendant, the maternal grandmother of Dorothy Ray Bolin, from a judgment awarding the care, custody, and control of the minor to its father.

This proceeding was initiated by an affidavit, charging that the minor was under the age of seventeen years, and that she was a neglected child within the meaning of the law. If the case had gone to trial upon the affidavit, the juvenile court’s jurisdiction to determine whether or hot the child was a neglected child, and, if found to be so, to award its custody, could not have been questioned, for the pertinent…