Gingerich v. State

This is an appeal from a final judgment of guilty in a case wherein appellant was charged with violating the Indiana compulsory school attendance law. Acts of 1921 General Assembly, ch. 132; §§ 28-501, et seq., Burns’ 1948 Replacement.

Appellant is a farmer and a member of the religious sect known as the Old Order of Amish Mennonites. He lived with his wife and 13 children in Green Township, Jay County, Indiana. It appears that all of the public schools in Green Township had been abandoned and school children of that township attended the schools of Penn Township which adjoined. Appellant’s…