B.A.M. v. STATE

No. 2144.

528 P.2d 437 (1974)

B.A.M., a minor, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

November 29, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herbert D. Soll, Public Defender, Anchorage, William T. Council, Asst. Public Defender, Ketchikan, Richard G. Lindsley, Jr., Asst. Public Defender, Anchorage, for appellant.

Norman C. Gorsuch, Atty. Gen., Juneau, Geoffrey G. Currall, Dist. Atty., Michael J. Keenan, Asst. Dist. Atty., Ketchikan, for appellee.

Before RABINOWITZ, C.J., and CONNOR, ERWIN, BOOCHEVER and FITZGERALD, JJ.


OPINION

FITZGERALD, Justice.

At his disposition hearing before the superior court on October 19, 1973,1 B.A.M. was found to be a delinquent child. The hearing judge ordered B.A.M. committed to the custody of the Commissioner of Health and Social Services to be incarcerated in an adult penal institution for one year and then placed on probation until his twentieth birthday.

We conclude that the hearing judge erred in ordering...

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