MATTER OF HUGHES

No. 8025DC590.

273 S.E.2d 324 (1981)

In the Matter of Michael Wayne HUGHES, Juvenile.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

January 6, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. Rufus L. Edmisten by Associate Atty. Gen. Robert L. Hillman, Raleigh, for the State.

Randy D. Duncan, Hickory, for respondent-appellant.


WHICHARD, Judge.

By the first assignment of error argued in respondent's brief, he contends the court erred in committing him to the Division of Youth Services in that he was an "undisciplined" juvenile for whom such commitment was not a statutorily provided dispositional alternative. The initial Juvenile Petition against respondent did charge him with the "undisciplined" behavior of unlawful absence from school. It was for this "status offense" (an offense committed...

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