STAPLER v. STATE

8 Div. 82.

141 So.2d 181 (1962)

James Wade STAPLER v. STATE of Alabama.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

May 10, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lusk & Lusk, Guntersville, for appellant.

MacDonald Gallion, Atty. Gen., and Leslie Hall, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.


COLEMAN, Justice.

This is an appeal from a decree in equity which ordered that the prosecution of a fifteen-year-old minor, under an indictment for murder and robbery, be transferred from the juvenile court to the circuit court.

On August 10, 1961, the grand jury returned the indictment and, on the same day, the circuit court ascertained that the minor was fourteen years of age and, therefore, under § 363, Title 13, transferred the cause to the juvenile...

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