Commonwealth v. Morris

The defendant, Alva L. Morris, of Nicholson Township, was indicted and convicted by a jury of unlawfully having refused to send his twelve-year old son, Alva M. Morris, to a day school, notwithstanding he had been given three days’ written notice of his violation of section 1414 of the School Code of May 18, 1911, P. L. 309, which requires every parent, guardian or other person having control or charge of any child or children between the ages of eight and sixteen years to send such child or children to a day school, in which the common English branches are taught, continuously throughout the…