Case Name: Johnson v. Commonwealth
Court: Kentucky Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Kentucky
Decision Date: 1943-12-03
Citations: 296 Ky. 81
Docket Number: 
Parties: Johnson v. Commonwealth.
Judges: 
Reporter: Kentucky Reports
Volume: 296
Pages: 81–82

Head Matter:
Johnson v. Commonwealth.
Dec. 3, 1943.
Henry L. Rudd for appellant.
Hubert Meredith, Attorney General, and Blanche Mackey, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

Opinion:
Opinion of the Court by
Chief Justice Fulton-
Reversing.
Earl Johnson appeals from a sentence to the penitentiary for two years for detaining a woman against her will.
The nncontradicted evidence established that the appellant was under seventeen years of age at the time of the alleged crime and the record does not disclose that a hearing was had in the juvenile court as required by KRS 199.080. This being true, the circuit court was without jurisdiction and the indictment should have been dismissed when the appellant's age was established. Mattingly v. Commonwealth, 171 Ky. 222, 188 S. W. 370; Goodfriend v. Commonwealth, 216 Ky. 573, 288 S. W. 330; Grise v. Commonwealth, 245 Ky. 220, 53 S. W. (2d) 362.
The judgment is reversed with directions to grant the appellant a new trial and for further proceedings consistent herewith.