IN RE JOHN A.

No. 404, September Term, 1979.

44 Md. App. 476 (1980)

409 A.2d 744

IN RE: JOHN A.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided January 9, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W. Sause, Jr., District Public Defender, with whom was Harry J. Goodrick, Assistant Public Defender, on the brief, for appellant.

Thomas P. Barbera, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Stephen H. Sachs, Attorney General, Donaldson C. Cole, Jr., State's Attorney for Cecil County, Joseph J. Mahoney and John L. Scarborough, Assistant State's Attorneys for Cecil County, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before LOWE, MACDANIEL and WEANT, JJ.


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

Accused of delinquency, John A. was brought before the Circuit Court for Cecil County sitting as a juvenile court to defend against two charges. The acts with which he was accused would have constituted, if proven against an adult, the crimes of trespass and daytime housebreaking with the intent to steal.1 The evidence indicated that one rainy afternoon John A. had entered what appears to have...

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