State v. O'Keith

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

The state brings this appeal on questions reserved by it on an order of the district court of Sedgwick county setting aside a judgment entered against defendant about thirteen years ago. The material facts of present importance are these:

On October 3,1919, the appellee, who was then a boy thirteen years and eleven months old, was arrested on a charge of burglarizing-a store building in Wichita and stealing five automobile tires therefrom. An information was filed charging him with burglary in the daytime and grand larceny, and five days…