STATE IN INTEREST OF BATISTE

No. 62821.

367 So.2d 784 (1979)

STATE of Louisiana in the Interest of Kenneth BATISTE and David James Cormier.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

January 29, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Cole, Cole & Guidry, Lafayette Indigent Juvenile Defender, Lafayette, for defendant-respondent.

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., J. Nathan Stansbury, Dist. Atty., Frances M. Gilfoil, Asst. Dist. Atty., for plaintiff-applicant.


DENNIS, Justice.*

The issue of law raised by this case is whether a child accused of having committed the crime of theft may be declared a delinquent child upon a finding that he committed the crime of unauthorized use of a movable.

A petition was filed in the juvenile court to have Kenneth Batiste and David James Cormier adjudged delinquent children, alleging that Batiste had committed theft of a bicycle on July 25, 1977 and that...

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