Title: In Interest of Evans

State: mississippi

Issuer: Mississippi Supreme Court

Document:

350 So. 2d 52 (1977) In the Interest of Niles Dwain EVANS, minor. No. 49939. Supreme Court of Mississippi. September 21, 1977. *53 Leon Johnson, West Point, for appellant. A.F. Summer, Atty. Gen., by Wayne Snuggs, Special Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee. Before INZER, ROBERTSON and BOWLING, JJ. ROBERTSON, Justice, for the Court: The Chancery Court of Choctaw County, acting as the Youth Court, after a full hearing at which Niles Dwain Evans, a 16-year-old minor; his parents, Niles William Evans and Mrs. Agnes Stevens Evans; and Leon Johnson, Attorney for Dwain Evans, were present, found and adjudicated on June 25, 1976, that Niles Dwain Evans was a delinquent child under paragraph (g) of Mississippi Code Annotated section 43-21-5 (Supp. 1976). The court further found: On August 30, 1976, the Youth Court entered an "Order Placing Child on Probation" which order, among other things, provided: The assignments of error are that the court erred: The appellant contends that the petition does not adequately charge the essential elements of the crime of larceny. The petition does set forth all the essential elements of the crime of burglary and that was the main charge against the minor. It did include this language: This language was sufficient, under the rule announced in Newburn v. State, 205 So. 2d 260 (Miss. 1967). On the question raised in the second assignment of error, the Youth Court had ruled: We think that this oral authorization was sufficient. As to the third assignment of error, the proof showed that Deborah Cagle, the 15-year-old daughter of A.W. Cagle, was at home at the time of the appellant's forceful entry, and when she saw appellant she asked him "what are you doing in my house?" This Court said in Taylor v. State, 214 Miss. 263, 58 So. 2d 664 (1952): The Youth Court was correct in overruling appellant's motion to strike. *55 Assignment of error number 4 is without merit because the proof was sufficient to sustain the charge of burglary of at least two of the four homes charged in the petition. For the welfare of the child adjudged delinquent, the Youth Court does have the authority to require the parents of the delinquent youth to participate in guidance counseling as it did in the case at bar. Mississippi Code Annotated section 43-21-25 (1972) provides: The youth court did provide competent counsel for the youth, Niles Dwain Evans, and it was not necessary nor required that the youth court provide counsel for the parents of Dwain Evans. See Miss. Code Ann. sec. 43-21-17 (Supp. 1976). The order of the Youth Court is, therefore, affirmed. AFFIRMED. PATTERSON, C.J., INZER and SMITH, P. JJ., and SUGG, WALKER, BROOM, LEE and BOWLING, JJ., concur.