Gaskins Case

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Bell,

The defendant, Dwight Gaskins, 14 years of age, lived permanently with his grandmother. Douglas Minnay, aged 15, had been invited by Gaskins to live temporarily with him in his grandmother’s home. During the evening of May 18, 1966, an argument concerning a watch developed between the two boys. According to the testimony of witnesses, Minnay had been pushing Gaskins in front of his grandmother’s home. Gaskins then went inside, picked up a knife which he placed in his pocket, and told his grandmother that *301Minnay was bothering him. Gaskins’s grandmother came…