Ballard v. State

PITTS, Chief Justice.

This proceeding was instituted by petition under the provisions of the Juvenile Delinquency Act, Article 2338 — -1, Vernon’s Annotated Civil Statutes, against Dudley Ray Ballard, alleging that he was a delinquent male child twelve years of age. Upon a hearing without a jury before the trial court a judgment was rendered finding Dudley Ray Ballard to be a delinquent child subject to the orders of the trial court until he becomes twenty-one years of age, unless earlier discharged by the said court, and the trial court ordered him committed to the State’s school for boys at…