Ex-parte Mallory

Per Curiam :

The Children’s Home Society of Virginia relies upon an order of the Juvenile and Domestic Court of the city of Richmond, committing the custody and control, of the children named in the petition, to legalize such custody. The children were not charged with any criminal offense when such order was entered, but only with being dependent and neglected children, as appears from said order. The proceeding was in fact instituted by a warrant issued by a justice of the peace, upon complaint and information on oath before him made by one H. F. Sweet that the children aforesaid were…