IN RE LEWIS

No. 1203.

88 A.2d 582 (1952)

In re LEWIS.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided May 21, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Foster Wood, Washington, D. C., Robert I. Miller, Washington, D. C., on the brief, for appellant.

Edward A. Beard, Asst. Corporation Counsel, Washington, D. C., Vernon E. West, Corp. Counsel, and Chester H. Gray, Principal Asst. Corp. Counsel, Washington, D. C., on the brief, for appellee.

Before CAYTON, Chief Judge, and HOOD and QUINN, Associate Judges.


HOOD, Associate Judge.

Appellant, a boy thirteen years of age, was committed by the Juvenile Court to the Board of Public Welfare after hearing on a petition charging him with having committed an indecent assault on a little girl nearly five years of age.

At the hearing there was testimony by the little girl, her mother, and a police officer who identified a confession by appellant, the confession being received in evidence without objection. The testimony...

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