SMITH, Acting Associate Justice.
On the 18th of August, 1927, Harold Reed, then 14 years 8 months old, was arraigned in the police court of the District of Columbia on a charge of housebreaking and pleaded "not guilty." The court held Reed to await the action of the grand jury and fixed his bail bond at the sum of $500. As Reed did not give the bail required, he was committed on the 18th of August, 1927, by the police court to the Washington asylum and jail. On the...
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