Case ID: nc-app_21/html/0715-01.html
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Author: {"author": "CARSON, Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

IN THE MATTER OF: JANICE LEE LOCKLEAR, Juvenile
    No. 7416DC218
    (Filed 5 June 1974)
    On certiorari to review the order of Britt, Chief District Judge, entered at the 1 October 1973 Session of Robeson County-District Court.
    Facts necessary for the determination of this matter are set forth in the opinion.
    
      Attorney General Robert Morgan by Associate Attorney Robert R. Reilly for the State.
    
    
      Moses and Diehl by Philip A. Diehl for appellant.
    
   CARSON, Judge.

The adjudication that the juvenile was undisciplined arose from the same factual situation and at the same hearing as that decided in the case of In re McMillan, decided contemporaneously with this decision. For the same reason as those set out in In re McMillan, the order appealed from, being unsupported by the evidence, must be vacated.

An additional question is presented in this appeal as to whether a juvenile is entitled to the appointment of counsel as a matter of right in appealing from an adjudication that the child is undisciplined. We do not deem it necessary to answer that question in view of our holding in this matter. We note, however, that the juvenile was ably represented in District Court by retained counsel, who has also ably represented her in this appeal.

The order appealed from is vacated.

Judges Parker and Vaughn concur.