State v. . Burnett
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT for murder beard on motion by defendants to quasb tbe Bill before bis Honor, W. M. Bond, Judge, at November Term, 1919, Superior Court Bertie County.
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INDICTMENT for murder beard on motion by defendants to quasb tbe Bill before bis Honor, W. M. Bond, Judge, at November Term, 1919, Superior Court Bertie County. Tbe bill of indictment, charging defendants in formal terms with the murder of Ludelle Hyman, deceased, contained on its face the averment that both of defendants were under 10 years of age, and it being admitted on the hearing that said defendants were under the age of ten, the court gave judgment that the Bill be quashed and defendants remanded to the Juvenile Court to be dealt with pursuant to law, being of opinion that, under the…
1Opinion of the CourtHoke, J.
The General Assembly of 1919, passed an act entitled “An act to create Juvenile Courts in North Carolina,” eh. 97, Laws 1919, designed and intended in behalf of the State to take over the guardianship of delinquent and dependent children under the age of 16 years when they come within the descriptive specifications of the law and it is established that the care and control of the parents, or others having present charge of such children, is inadequate and harmful and that the welfare of the child and the best interest of the State clearly require it. With this end in view, the statute, in…
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