In Re Pierce

This is an appeal from an order of the Superior Court of Orange County, sitting as a juvenile court, declaring Louis Pierce to be a ward of said court and ordering that he be committed to the Preston School of Industry at Ione, until further order of the court. It appears that no phonographic reporter was present at the hearing, hence no transcript of the proceedings could be prepared. Counsel for appellant has not seen fit to have prepared a bill of exceptions. The appeal therefore is presented on the judgment-roll alone. From the record thus presented it is made to appear first, that a petition was duly filed alleging that Louis Pierce was sixteen years of age and a person such as is defined in subdivision 13 of section 1 of the Juvenile Court Law in that on a certain date he had committed a lewd and lascivious act upon the body of a child, said act constituting a violation of section 288 of the Penal Code; second, that an order was made by the court fixing a date for the hearing and directing that a citation issue directed to certain designated persons; third, that on the date appointed a hearing was had and the court made the order from which the appeal herein has been taken.…