People v. McDonald

In this case a petition was filed in the county court of Sangamon county on the 27th day of October, 1920, under section 4 of “An Act to regulate the treatment and control of dependent, neglected and delinquent children [Cahill’s Ill. St. ch. 23, ¶ 322],” by W. McDonald, alleging that Charles McDonald, a male child, under the age of 15 years, within the county of Sangamon, was a delinquent child, within the meaning of the act referred to; and that said child, at that time, was in the custody and control of the sheriff, and residing in the jail annex; that Elizabeth McDonald was the mother of…