EX PARTE LATHAN J.

22543

288 S.C. 479 (1986)

343 S.E.2d 619

Ex parte LATHAN J. by his Guardian ad litem, Mark D. CHAPPELL, In re LATHAN J., a Minor Under the Age of Seventeen years, Appellant.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

Decided May 5, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John D. Elliott, and South Carolina Office of Appellate Defense, Columbia, for appellant.

Attorney General T. Travis Medlock, Asst. Attys. Gen. Harold M. Coombs, Jr., and Amie L. Clifford, Staff Attorney Norman Mark Rapoport, and Solicitor James C. Anders, Columbia, for respondent.

Mark D. Chappell, West Columbia, Guardian ad Litem.


Heard March 26, 1986.

Decided May 5, 1986.

FINNEY, Justice:

This is an appeal from an order of the Family Court of Richland County finding the minor in violation of the South Carolina Compulsory School Attendance Act, S.C. Code Ann. Section 59-65-10, et seq., (1976). We affirm.

On October 6, 1984, the minor appellant and his mother were served with a petition alleging that the appellant had five unexcused absences during the school year...

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