Marsh's Case

Opinion by

Stadtfeld, J.,

On October 17, 1938, a petition was filed in the Court of Quarter Sessions of Cumberland County, sitting as a Juvenile Court, for the production of Eugene Marsh on a charge of being a delinquent and neglected child.

At the hearing upon the petition, the evidence established the following facts: Eugene Marsh, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Marsh of South Middleton Township, was born October 22, 1929. He was a child of good health and compulsory school age 1 during the school years of 1937-38 and 1938-39. Nevertheless, he failed to attend school in the district during the term…