Anthony v. State

1. As was expressly ruled in Vinson v. State, 124 Ga. 19, “A minor who has arrived at the age of criminal responsibility may be convicted, under the act of 1903, of the fraudulent practices made penal by that act, although a contract of service made by him may not be civilly enforceable.”

2. While proof that the minor left the service of his employer in obedience to parental authority will suffice to rebut all presumption of fraudulent intent (Howard v. State, ante, 538), yet the bare fact that the minor told his employer that he had yielded to the command of a stranger to go to work for him…