In Re Hulbert

A petition was filed in the Superior Court of Mendocino County, sitting as a juvenile court, charging Donald Hulbert, a minor of the age of eighteen years, with having committed an assault upon Inez Pinoli, thereby causing her serious injury, and that by reason thereof, he was a person coming within the provisions of the Juvenile Court Law.

Upon the hearing of said matter the said Donald Hulbert was adjudged to be a ward of the juvenile court and until the further order of the court was placed in the custody of his parents. It was further adjudged by the court that said minor be placed on probation under the supervision of the probation officer of said county and that during the period of said probation the said minor should pay to the probation officer the sum of one hundred dollars to reimburse Mrs. Elvira Pinoli, the mother of said Inez Pinoli, for the expense made necessary by the injuries inflicted as the result of said assault. From this judgment Donald Hulbert has appealed.

He does not upon this appeal question the action of the court making him a ward of the juvenile court, but bases his ground for reversal solely upon the proposition that the juvenile court was without…