In Re Nancy C.

This is an appeal from an order of the juvenile court continuing the minor as a ward of the juvenile court.

On June 22, 1971, a supplemental petition was filed in the Superior Court of Solano County, sitting as a juvenile court, alleging two violations of Welfare and Institutions Code section 602, by Nancy C., age 15. She was charged in count one with the failure to obey an order of the juvenile court by leaving her foster parents’ home without their consent, and in count two with a violation of Health and Safety Code section 11530, possession of marijuana.

At the jurisdictional hearing the referee sustained the petition on both counts, ordered the minor continued as a ward of the juvenile court and committed the minor to the California Youth Authority.

Nancy C. first appeared before the Solano County Juvenile Court in 1969, when she was adjudged a ward of the court and placed in the home of an aunt. Subsequently, she was before the court several other times and continued as a ward of the court with placement in various foster homes. In April 1971, Nancy was placed in a foster home in Sacramento, California, where she remained until June 14 of that year.

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