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STATE IN INTEREST OF BELLANGER

No. 11941.

357 So.2d 634 (1978)

STATE of Louisiana in the Interest of Lee John BELLANGER, special juvenile.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

March 20, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerome J. Barbera, III, Asst. Dist. Atty. and Francis Dugas, Dist. Atty., Thibodaux, for the State of Louisiana, appellee.

Herbert O'Niell, Thibodaux, for Lee John Bellanger, appellant.

Before COVINGTON, CHIASSON and PONDER, JJ.

PONDER, Judge.

Lee John Bellanger, a juvenile, appeals from an order committing him to the Department of Corrections.

The issue is whether a truant may be committed to the Department of Corrections. The lower court held that he could. We reverse and remand.

The juvenile had been before the Juvenile Court for truancy and had been placed on supervised probation for an indefinite period of time not to exceed his eighteenth birthday, with the special condition...

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