In Re Bigesby

HOOD, Chief Judge.

This appeal is by a twelve-year-old boy from a judgment of the Juvenile Court holding that it had been established “by proper, competent and sufficient proof, and by a preponderance of the evidence” that he, together with two other boys, had knocked to the ground an eleven-year-old boy and had taken forcibly from his pants pocket 45 cents in change. The only error assigned is that the judgment was based upon proof by a preponderance of the evidence. The claim is that a charge of this nature in the Juvenile Court can be established only by proof beyond a reasonable doubt. 1

It…