Terry Appeal

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Roberts,

Joseph McKeiver1 and Edward Terry2 are juvenile delinquents, having acquired that status upon findings *342by the Juvenile Court of Philadelphia that each had violated a law of the Commonwealth.3 The Superior Court affirmed the adjudications per curiam and we granted allocatur. Their consolidated appeals raise a single question: whether there is a constitutional right to a jury trial in juvenile court.

Appellants argue that the Constitution of the United States, especially as interperited by In re Gault, 387 U.S. 1, 87 S. Ct. 1428 (1967) and Duncan v. Louisiana,…