Gibson v. People

The general assembly at its fourteenth regular session passed two acts, one entitled '‘An Act Concerning Delinquent Children” (Session Laws 1903, *601p. 178); the other “An Act to Provide for the Punishment of Persons Responsible for or Contributing to the Delinquency of Children” (Ibid., p. 198). The purpose of the former act, designated in the record “the delinquent children law,” as declared in section 12 thereof, is to furnish, through agencies of the state, for delinquent children, that care, custody and discipline which shall approximate, as nearly as may be, that which should be given by…