... backwards into the Nineteenth Century. In that era there were no juvenile proceedings, and a child was tried in a conventional criminal court with all the trappings of a conventional criminal trial. The Changing Face of U.S. Courts - Page 202003 - 47 pagesFull view - About this book
| United States. Task Force on Juvenile Delinquency - 1967 - 444 pages
...trial. So it was that a 12-year-old boy named James Guild was tried in New Jersey for killing Catherine Beakes. A jury found him guilty of murder, and he was sentenced to death by hanging. The sentence was executed. It was all very constitutional.2 A state in all its dealings must, of course,... | |
| New South Wales. Supreme Court - 1924 - 694 pages
...he was so much under the influence of SIMPSON, liquor as to be incapable of forming any intent. The jury -- found him guilty of murder, and he was sentenced to death. Street, ACJ The first ground relied upon by way of appeal is that Gordon, J., who presided at the trial,... | |
| Charles M. Lamb, Stephen C. Halpern - 1991 - 532 pages
...conventional criminal court with all the trappings of a conventional criminal trial. So it was that a 12-year-old boy named James Guild was tried in New...murder, and he was sentenced to death by hanging. The sentence was executed. It was all very constitutional" (387 US at 79-80). Gerald Gault was to be... | |
| Edward Humes - 1997 - 404 pages
...trial. So it was that a 12-year-old boy named James Guild was tried in New Jersey for killing Catherine Beakes. A jury found him guilty of murder, and he was sentenced to death by hanging. The sentence was executed. It was all very constitutional. JUSTICE POTTER STEWART, in a lone dissent... | |
| Susan Guarino-Ghezzi, Edward J. Loughran - 2005 - 242 pages
...conventional criminal court with all the trappings of a conventional criminal trial. So it was that a 12-year-old boy named James Guild was tried in New...murder, and he was sentenced to death by hanging. The sentence was executed. It was all very constitutional (In re Gault, 387 US 1, 1967:1471). 4.2.1... | |
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