People v. Slater

This is an appeal from an adjudication of a magistrate wherein the appellant was found to be a wayward minor violating section 913-a of the Code of Criminal Procedure. She was charged with “ habitually associating with dissolute persons ” endangering her morals.

She is not accused of a crime, but of a moral weakness and the State fostered the inquiry, for the betterment of the minor, whose steps might be directed along better pathways. (People ex rel. *642Deordio v. Palmer, 230 App. Div. 397; People ex rel. Peltz v. Brewster, 232 id. 1.)

The defendant alleges she should have been brought into court…