In re McDowell

WALSH, J.,

Hugh F. McDowell, Jr., has appealed under the Juvenile Act1 from a finding of delinquency and an order placing him on probation.

A petition was brought by a township police officer charging the child, then aged 14 years, 11 months, with the offenses of criminal mischief, simple assault, and resisting arrest. At a hearing on the petition, one Noél Moyer testified that on April 4 of this year at about 4:30 p.m. he noticed from his *722living room window two youths walking down the street in a staggering manner. They proceeded to tear the mailboxes of two of the witness’s neighbors off…