Hunter v. United States
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
In error to tbe Juvenile Court of the District of Columbia. The Court in the opinion stated the facts as follows: This cause is here on writ of error to the juvenile court of the District of Columbia to review a judgment adjudging plaintiff in error, James Hunter, hereafter, for convenience, referred to as defendant, guilty of contempt of court. James Hunter, Jr., son of defendant, was convicted in the juvenile court of disorderly conduct.
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In error to tbe Juvenile Court of the District of Columbia. The Court in the opinion stated the facts as follows: This cause is here on writ of error to the juvenile court of the District of Columbia to review a judgment adjudging plaintiff in error, James Hunter, hereafter, for convenience, referred to as defendant, guilty of contempt of court. James Hunter, Jr., son of defendant, was convicted in the juvenile court of disorderly conduct. Sentence.was suspended by the court, and he was placed upon probation. Permission was given defendant to place his son in the National Junior Eepublic,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Van Orsdel
delivered, the opinion of the Court:
We are not here concerned with the regularity of the proceedings respecting the arrest, conviction, suspension of sentence, and placing of the boy upon probation. Tbe court had jurisdiction of the party and of the subject-matter. Hence, bow ever defective or erroneous tbe proceedings, the judgment was not void, and could, at most, be voidable. It cannot, therefore, be collaterally impeached in this proceeding. Murphy v. Massachusetts, 177 U. S. 155, 159, 44 L. ed. 711, 714, 20 Sup. Ct. Rep. 639; District of Columbia v. Wilson, 44 App. D. C. 265, 269.…
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