Wooton v. Commonwealth

OpiNioN op the Court by

Chief Justice Rees

Reversing.

Willie Wooton, a male child under seventeen years of age, was proceeded against in the juvenile session of the Lawrence county court for delinquency. A jury was impaneled, and the following verdict was returned: “We, the jury, agree and find the defendant guilty of being a delinquent.” Thereupon a judgment was entered, adjudging him to be a delinquent and committing him to the house of reform until he was twenty-one years of age unless sooner paroled.

The proceedings were instituted by the filing of a petition by William Savage in which the…