People v. Smith

Louise Simpson appeals the judgment of the Circuit Court of Clay County in which her minor son, Anthony Smith, was adjudicated a neglected child and made a ward of the court and which awarded custody of the son to Richard S. Laymon, guardianship administrator of the Department of Children and Family Services (the Department).

On August 22,1977, Marilyn Wilkinson, on behalf of the Department, filed a petition alleging that Anthony Smith, age 8 years, was a neglected child because:

“(a) his behavior is injurious to his own welfare in that:

1. On 7-16-77 said minor broke into a grocery store and…