STATE v. DOE

Nos. 4688, 4689.

619 P.2d 194 (1980)

95 N.M. 90

STATE of New Mexico, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. John DOE and John Doe, Defendants-Appellees.

Court of Appeals of New Mexico.

October 16, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeff Bingaman, Atty. Gen., Frank A. Murray, Asst. Atty. Gen., Santa Fe, for plaintiff-appellant.

John B. Bigelow, Chief Public Defender, Martha A. Daly, Appellate Defender, Santa Fe, Raul Sedillo, Trial Counsel, Belen, for defendants-appellees.


OPINION

WOOD, Chief Judge.

This is a consolidated appeal of two children's court cases. We discuss (1) the children's court's dispositional authority; (2) the validity of the judgment on which the disposition was based; and (3) procedural matters.

Dispositional Authority

In both cases the State appealed judgments of the children's court which "sentenced" the child to the New Mexico Boys' School for a specified period of time. In...

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