Jones v. Commonwealth

Upon separate petitions filed by a probation officer, the defendants, William Jones and George Patrick, infants under the age of eighteen years, respectively------years and fifteen years, were summoned to appear before the Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court of the city of Bristol, Virginia, to answer complaints that they were delinquent children within the meaning of chapter 78, Virginia Code, 1942 (Michie).

Upon trial, the Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court found each of them guilty of throwing stones at a dwelling in the night time. Separate judgments were entered declaring each a…