DocketNumber: No. 5526.
Citation Numbers: 294 P. 528, 50 Idaho 223
Judges: GIVENS, C.J.
Filed Date: 12/27/1930
Status: Precedential
Modified Date: 1/12/2023
On an information charging that a minor was a juvenile delinquent, specifying instances of delinquency, and that his mother, the only parent, was neglecting the child and was not exercising sufficient or any control over him, after due notice, and a hearing at which the mother was present and represented by counsel, the court committed him to the state industrial school.
Appellant urges against the judgment of the district court, sustaining the probate court, that art. 20, chap. 41, C. S., prior to its amendment by Sess. Laws of 1927, chap. 167, did not afford the parent due process of law, which is correct. (Martin v. Vincent,
No doubt to remedy this situation, the legislature passed the amendments in 1927 Sess. Laws, chap. 167, which provide for notice to the parent, and the issue, and a complete hearing, as to the neglect, or unfitness of the parent to have the custody of the child, specifying findings of neglect or unfitness which the court must make before the child may be taken from the parent, thus affording the parent due process. (In re Sharp,
Only the state introduced evidence, and thereby assumed and sustained the entire burden of proving the delinquency of the child and the unfitness of the parent, and one who is not injured by an act may not complain of it as unconstitutional (Williams v. Baldridge,
The evidence, while perhaps meager, is sufficient to sustain the conclusion that the boy should have been committed.
Judgment is affirmed.
No costs awarded.
Lee, Varian and McNaughton, JJ., concur.
Budge, J., did not participate.
Logan v. Carter , 49 Idaho 393 ( 1930 )
State v. Clark , 88 Idaho 365 ( 1965 )
Dredge Mining Control-Yes!, Inc. v. Cenarrusa , 92 Idaho 480 ( 1968 )
State Ex Rel. Nielson v. City of Gooding , 75 Idaho 36 ( 1953 )
State v. Wendler , 83 Idaho 213 ( 1961 )
Poffenroth v. Culinary Workers Union Local No. 328 , 71 Idaho 412 ( 1951 )
Batt v. Unemployment C. Div. , 63 Idaho 572 ( 1942 )
Thomas v. Riggs , 67 Idaho 223 ( 1946 )
State v. Taylor , 58 Idaho 656 ( 1938 )
State v. Musser , 67 Idaho 214 ( 1946 )
City of Idaho Falls v. Pfost , 53 Idaho 247 ( 1933 )
United Mercury Mines Co. v. Pfost , 57 Idaho 293 ( 1937 )