People v. Brown

Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the County Court of Orange County, adjudicating him to be a wayward minor. Judgment reversed on the law and the information dismissed. The information charging defendant with being a wayward minor specifies acts on four separate occasions between April 4, 1950, and July 16, 1950. There was no testimony with respect to the occurrence on July 16, 1950. The other acts charged were committed when defendant was under sixteen years of age. The statute (Code Grim, Pro., § 913-a) defines a wayward minor as a person between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one who…