In re Barbee

Citations

• 19 Wash. 306
• 53 P. 155
• 1898 Wash. LEXIS 368

Syllabus

<p>COMMITTMENT TO BEFOBM SCHOOL — JUBISDICTION OF MUNICIPAL COUBT.</p> <p>A municipal court being, under the constitution, an inferior court, and, under the statute, having concurrent jurisdiction with justice courts only, such municipal court has no jurisdiction to commit a child between the ages of eight and sixteen years to the reform school, but is merely authorized to send such child, when found guilty of any -crime, mendicancy, vagrancy or incorrigibility to the superior court for further trial, under Laws 1891, p. 195 (Bal. Code, §§ 2721-2727),providing that when such a child is found guilty, in any court of record in this state, of any crime except murder or manslaughter, or is growing up in mendicancy or vagrancy -or is incorrigible, the court may in its judgment send such child to the state reform school; and, further, if such child shall be convicted before a justice of the peace or other inferior court of any crime, mendicancy, vagrancy or incorrigibility, it shall be the duty of said magistrate to send such child, with all papers filed in his office forthwith to a judge of a court of record for further proceedings.</p>