Steed and Wray v. State

This proceeding was instituted by petition under the provisions of the Juvenile Delinquency Act, Article 2338-1, Vernon’s Annotated Civil Statutes, against Ray Steed and Leslie Wray. It was alleged that both petitioners were delinquent male children of sixteen years of age. Upon a verdict of a jury, finding the defendants to be delinquent children, the trial court rendered judgment committing them to the State Juvenile Training School for Boys at Gatesville, Texas, for an indeterminate period, not to exceed their twenty-first birthday. Upon appeal to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Sixth…