Legal Opinion
State ex rel. S. H.
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Decided July 7, 1972PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Proctor, J.
A juvenile delinquency complaint in the Mercer County Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court charged that the appellant, S. H., age 10, caused the drowning of B. R., age 6, by pushing him into a canal. The court found that the appellant was a juvenile delinquent. However, it reserved decision as to whether the offense would be manslaughter or second degree murder had the act been committed by a person of the age of 18 or over until it received the report of the Menlo Park Diagnostic Center to which it committed S. H. for 90 days for…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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