STATE v. DOYAL

No. 5831.

286 P.2d 306 (1955)

59 N.M. 454

STATE of New Mexico, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Bob C. DOYAL, Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

Rehearing Denied August 16, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ward & Carrell, Lovington, (Melvin Neal, Hobbs, G.T. Hanners, Lovington, and M.E. Noble, Las Vegas, on rehearing only), or appellant.

Richard H. Robinson, Atty. Gen., Fred M. Standley, W. R. Kegel, Asst. Attys. Gen., for appellee.


SADLER, Justice.

The question for decision is whether a district judge committed reversible error in holding for trial in the district court a minor defendant a few months past 15 years of age, charged with two murders committed at 14 1/2 years of age, as against remanding the cases (consolidated for trial in the district court), to the juvenile court for disposition by the judge of the latter court.

The parents of the youth had been divorced when he was about...

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