In Re Custody of a Minor

BURGER, Circuit Judge.

The primary question on appeal from denial of habeas corpus is whether a minor has a right to counsel in a proceeding in which his parents are charged with inadequate care of the minor, and which charge if true would lead to removal of the minor from the custody of his parents.

In September 1951, the boy’s mother (the father being in jail) was summoned to Juvenile Court to answer a charge that the boy was “without adequate parental care.” At the time the boy was eight years old. Alleged thefts by the child were among the manifestations of the alleged lack of parental care.