State ex rel. Sowders v. Superior Court

Citations

• 105 Wash. 684

Syllabus

<p>Infants (16)—Juvenile Offenders — Punishment — Statutes. Under the juvenile court law, Rem. Code, § 1987-1 et seq., defining dependent and delinquent children, which provides, in § 1987-11, that no court shall commit a child under sixteen to a jail, common lockup, or police station, and that when sentenced to any institution to which adult convicts are sentenced, it shall be unlawful to confine such child in a building with such adults, and Id., § 1987-12, authorizing a court to turn a child over to the proper authorities for trial when charged with crime, the word “commit” refers only to detentions pending hearing, and a child may be prosecuted for crime and sentenced to the penitentiary, although not confined in a building with adult convicts; and the fact that the state has not made proper provisions, does not prevent such sentence.</p> <p>Prohibition (4)—Adequacy of Remedy by Appeal—Inability to Give Bail. The fact that one convicted of crime cannot give bail is no reason for reviewing errors of the trial court by the extraordinary writ of prohibition.</p>