“CANNOT TRY A BABY.”
LONDON, November 4. When the name, of an 11-year-old West Hartlepool boy indicted for the manslaughter of another boy was called at Durham Assiges yesterday, Mr. Justice Charles said: “I cannot try a baby, and I won’t allow him to go into the dock. The boy was given a seat at the end of the barrister s bench. The Crown offered no evidence. and the boy was discharged. It had been alleged that he threw a stone at a playmate, causing a fatal injury.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 27 December 1944, Page 5
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