Ex parte Smith

The Virginia Home and Industrial School for Girls relies upon an order of the police justice of the city of Peters-burg, entered on May 22, 1918, committing to it the custody and control of the petitioner, Hazel Smith, to legalize such custody. It appears from the original order of commitment aforesaid that it was entered'when the petitioner was personally in custody, on her being brought before said police justice for trial upon the charge upon the oath of one John T. Byers, of being a “delinquent child not suitable to be placed on probation,” and that upon such trial such .justice was of…