Wade v. Warden of State Prison

Dissenting opinion.

Murchie, C. J.

I am unable to concur in the opinion of Mr. Justice Fellows. It construes a provision in that section of our municipal court law which vests such courts with power to punish a child for juvenile delinquency or, in the alternative, to hold him for a grand jury, in a manner which seems, to me, entirely without justification. R. S., 1944, Chap. 133, Sec. 6. It does so without stating, except by implication, the principle of statutory construction it applies. The implication is that it gives statutory language its usual and ordinary meaning. It is undoubted that…