In re Chartrand

Citations

• 107 Wash. 560
• 182 P. 610
• 1919 Wash. LEXIS 802

Syllabus

<p>Infants (4)—Custody of Delinquents — Proceedings. Rem. Code, § 2312, requiring the dismissal of prosecutions where the accused is not brought to trial within sixty days, applies only to criminal prosecutions, and not to proceedings against a delinquent child, under Rem. Code, § 1987-1, par. 6, of the juvenile act.</p> <p>Same (4)—Proceedings—Power of Court—Habeas Corpus. The superior court, sitting for the hearing of a writ of habeas corpus in behalf of a minor charged to be a delinquent child, has power to act as a court in juvenile matters and may treat the application as a motion for a change of custody.</p>