State ex rel. Johnson v. Quigg

Citations

• 83 Fla. 1
• 90 So. 695

Syllabus

<p>1. Under Section 1, Article V, of the Constitution as amended in 1914, the Legislature has power to establish a juvenile court in one or all of the several counties of the State, and to confer upon such courts jurisdiction, powers and duties that do not conflict with other organic provisions.</p> <p>2. It appears in this case that it was the duty of the municipal court of the City of Miami under Section 7, Chapter 8663, Acts of 1921, to transfer a charge made in that court against the petitioner who was under seventeen years of age, to the juvenile court of Dade County, and that imprisonment of petitioner under sentence of the municipal court is unlawful, and that on habeas corpus the petitioner should be ordered produced before the municipal court for appropriate proceedings under the law.</p>