 The action is not for the trial of a child charged with a crime, but is mercifully to save it from such an ordeal with the prison or penitentiary in its wake if the child's own good and the best interests of the state justify such salvation.  Educational Review - Page 496edited by - 1915Full view - About this book
 | Eugene McQuillin - Corporation law - 1913 - 1098 pages
...require that the minor should be tried, power to try is not taken away from the court. • * • The act Is not for the trial of a child charged with a crime,...best interests of the state Justify such salvation. Wnether the child deserves to be saved by the state is no more a question for the Jury than whether... | |
 | Ellwood Patterson Cubberley, Edward Charles Elliott - Education - 1915 - 762 pages
...disgrace, the legislature surely may provide for the salvation of such a child, if its parents or guardian be unable or unwilling to do so, by bringing it into...is mercifully to save it from such an ordeal, with tlie prison or penitentiary in its wake, if the child's own good and the best interests of the state... | |
 | Hannah Kent Schoff - Juvenile delinquency - 1915 - 338 pages
...penalty for crime committed. As already stated, the act is not for the trial of a child charged with crime, but is mercifully to save it from such an ordeal, with prison or penitentiary in its wake, if the child's own good and the best interests of the state justify... | |
 | Administrative law - 1919 - 316 pages
...delinquent child can be tried only by a jury for a crime charged ; but, as already stated, the Act is not for the trial of a child charged with a crime,...best interests of the State justify such salvation." Not only would a commitment by the Juvenile Court of a delinquent child to the Huntingdon Reformatory... | |
 | Child welfare - 1919 - 990 pages
...stated — The act is not for the trial of a child charged with crime, but is mercifully to save it from an ordeal, with the prison or penitentiary in its wake, if the child's own good and the beet interests of the State justify such salvation. Whether the child deserves to be saved by the State... | |
 | Francis Bowes Sayre - Criminal law - 1927 - 1192 pages
...a delinquent child can be tried only by a jury for a crime charged; but, as already stated, the act is not for the trial of a child charged with a crime,...penitentiary in its wake, if the child's own good and the besi interests of the state justify such salvation. . . . The act is but an exercise by the state of... | |
 | Oklahoma State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1921 - 308 pages
...stated: The act is not for the trial of a child charged with crime but is merciful to save it from an ordeal with the prison or penitentiary in its wake. If the child's own good and the best interest of the State justify such salvation, whether the child deserves to be saved by the State is... | |
 | United States. Task Force on Juvenile Delinquency - Government publications - 1967 - 452 pages
...for depriving a child of its liberty or property as a penalty for crime committed * * *. [T]he act is not for the trial of a child charged with a crime,...good and the best interests of the State justify such salvation.183 Occasionally, dissenting voices protested either the unfairness 154 or the leniency 155... | |
 | Colorado Bar Association - Bar associations - 1924 - 462 pages
...referring to the Juvenile Court Law of Pennsylvania: The act is not for the trial of a child charged .with crime, but Is mercifully to save it from such an ordeal,...Whether the child deserves to be saved by the state is more a question for a jury than whether the father, if able to save it, ought to save It. Out of this... | |
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