IN RE BURRUS

No. 15.

169 S.E.2d 879 (1969)

275 N.C. 517

In re Barbara BURRUS (and 45 other cases).

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

October 16, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Chambers, Stein, Ferguson & Lanning, by James E. Ferguson, II, Charlotte, for respondent appellants.

Robert Morgan, Atty. Gen., and Ralph Moody, Deputy Atty. Gen., for the State.


HUSKINS, Justice.

Four questions, preserved and brought forward, will be discussed in chronological order.

1. Under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States and Article I, Section 17, of the Constitution of North Carolina, is a juvenile entitled to a jury trial in a juvenile court proceeding on the issue of his delinquency?

The Constitution of the United States, Article III, Section 2, reads in pertinent part as...

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