Ragsdale and Arnwine v. State

PRENDERGAST, Judge.

—The appellants, two negro boys, were jointly indicted for and convicted of burglary and sentenced to con fmement for three years in the State Institute for the Training of Juveniles. The indictment did not allege their ages.

Before their trial the father of each filed a proper sworn statement in accordance with article 1145, Code Criminal Procedure, as amended by the Acts of 1909, page 100, approved March 17, 1909, that they were respectively under sixteen years of age when they were alleged to have committed the offense, and at the same time their attorneys filed a written…