In re Bogart

On a Saturday morning, March 2, 1963, the respondent, Andrew Bogart, then 14 years of age, and a 9th grade student at West Hill Central School in the Town of Geddes, Onondaga County, and a friend, Richard Brooks, then *107615 years old, left their homes to go hunting for crows and rabbits in the general vicinity of an area known as Pegg’s Woods, which was near the school. The boys had one weapon between them, a 16-gauge Mossberg shotgun with a bolt action. The gun was fed by means of a clip which held two shells and a third shell could be placed in the chamber. The weapon was equipped with a…