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JEFFERS v. STATE

[No. 20, October Term, 1953.]

203 Md. 227 (1953)

100 A.2d 10

JEFFERS v. STATE

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided November 12, 1953.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry L. Rogers for the appellant.

W. Giles Parker, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Edward D.E. Rollins, Attorney General, and Clayton Cann Carter, State's Attorney for Queen Anne's County, on the brief, for the appellee.

The cause was argued before SOBELOFF, C.J., and DELAPLAINE, COLLINS, HENDERSON and HAMMOND, JJ.

DELAPLAINE, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

This proceeding was commenced in the Circuit Court for Queen Anne's County, sitting as a Juvenile Court, in October, 1952, on the petition of Elva Mae Stanford, a resident of that county, alleging that her daughter, Iris Stanford, age 10, was a "dependent child" within the meaning of the Maryland Juvenile Court Act, Code 1951, art. 26, sec. 51, for the reason that the child's father, James Albert Jeffers, a resident...

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