United States v. Borders

GROOMS, District Judge.

This is a proceeding under the Juvenile Delinquency Act. 18 U.S.C.A. § 5031 et seq. The information charges that the defendant, in violation of 18 U.S.C.A. § 1992, did, on March 12, 1957, wilfully derail and wreck twenty-one cars and three diesel units of a fifty-eight car— three diesel unit interstate freight train of the Southern Railway Company, by breaking a switch lock and immobilizing the switch lever thereby leaving the switch in a split position. 1

The defendant did not testify in his own defense. He was twelve years of age at the time the wreck occurred. Counsel…