Commonwealth v. Alan D.

WICKERSHAM, Judge:

On April 24, 1980 in the Court of Common Pleas of Berks County, Pennsylvania—Juvenile Division, the defendant was found guilty of the summary offense of criminal mischief and was fined one hundred dollars ($100.00), costs and restitution. The juvenile-appellant appealed to this court.1

*300Following an episode where two concrete and wooden park benches were found overturned in a tree-well at the West Reading Playground, West Reading Police charged Alan D., age 12, with criminal mischief under the Pennsylvania Crimes Code, 18 Pa.C.S. § 3304(a)(2). A district justice entered a…