Commonwealth Ex Rel. School District v. Bey

Opinion by

Reno, J.,

Appellants, 1 husband and wife, were convicted in a summary proceeding before an alderman and on appeal in the court below of violating the compulsory attendance provisions of the School Code.

The offense was committed on January 19, 1949, and the applicable statute is the Act of May 18, 1911, P. L. 309, §1414, as last amended by the Act of June 24,1939, P. L. 786, §2, 24 PS §1421. It requires “every parent ... of any child or children of compulsoi’y school age [between the ages of eight and seventeen years] ... to send such child or children to a day school . . .; and such…