holding that the purpose of a 7 predecessor CDM statute was “to protect the youth of our state from those evil and 8 designing persons who would lead them astray, and [the appellate courts] are not 9 disposed to in any way impair its usefulness by giving any narrow or strained 10 construction to any of its plain and obvious provisions” (internal quotation marks and 11 citation omitted)
How later courts described this case
- holding that the purpose of a 7 predecessor CDM statute was “to protect the youth of our state from those evil and 8 designing persons who would lead them astray, and [the appellate courts] are not 9 disposed to in any way impair its usefulness by giving any narrow or strained 10 construction to any of its plain and obvious provisions” (internal quotation marks and 11 citation omitted)
- holding that the purpose of a predecessor CDM statute was “to protect the youth of our state from those evil and designing persons who would lead them astray, and [the appellate courts] are not disposed to in any way impair its usefulness by giving any narrow or strained construction to any of its plain and obvious provisions” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
- upholding CDM statute as not being unconstitutionally vague, and noting that the legislature may create offense by defining it as an act which produces a certain result
- noting that CDM statute had been amended by 1943 N.M. Laws, ch. 36, § 1, deleting language that tied CDM to definition of juvenile delinquency
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
McGHEE, Justice
(dissenting in part).
I agree with the holding that only the district court has jurisdiction to try felony cases, but I am of the opinion that the statute is unconstitutional under the authority of State v. Diamond, 27 N.M. 477 , 202 P. 988 , 20 A.L.R. 1527 ; State v. Armstrong, 31 N.M. 220, 254 , 243 P. 333 ; State v. Prince, 52 N.M. 15 , 189 P.2d 993 ; State v. Truby, 211 La. 178 , 29 So.2d 758 , and State v. Vallery, 212 La. 1095 , 34 So.2d 329 , and therefore dissent.